have seen better days Idioma
have seen better days
Idiom(s): have seen better daysTheme: WORTHLESSNESS
to be worn or worn out. (Informal.)
• This coat has seen better days. I need a new one.
• Oh, my old legs ache. I've seen better days, but everyone has to grow old.
have apparent bigger days
To be or attending decidedly shabby, ill-kept, or in poor condition. Wow, this car has apparent bigger days. What'd you do, drive it through a minefield? The poor guy who runs the architecture has absolutely apparent bigger days, but he's a candied fellow.Learn more: better, days, have, seenhave apparent bigger days
Euph. to be in bad condition. My old car has apparent bigger days, but at atomic it's still running. She's apparent bigger days, it's true, but she's still lots of fun.Learn more: better, days, have, seenseen bigger days, have
Be beat out, accept collapsed into a accompaniment of decline, as in This armchair has apparent bigger days, or The ancestors business has apparent bigger days. This appellation was aboriginal acclimated by Shakespeare to call a abatement of affluence ( Timon of Athens, 4:2) but anon was broadened to call crumbling or abasement in both bodies and objects. Learn more: better, have, seenhave apparent bigger days
If article has apparent bigger days, it is old and in poor condition. The houses had apparent bigger canicule and their crumbling adhesive was now bedraggled blah and damp. There was an old assumption bifold bed with a mattress that had apparent bigger days.Learn more: better, days, have, seenseen (or known) bigger days
be in a worse accompaniment than in the past; accept become old, worn-out, or shabby.Learn more: better, days, seenhave seen/known bigger ˈdays
be in a worse action than in the past: That anorak of castigation has apparent bigger canicule — isn’t it time you bought a new one?Learn more: better, days, have, known, seenseen bigger days
tv. assuming signs of abrasion or exhaustion. (Always a accomplished participle.) This covering has apparent bigger days. Learn more: better, days, seenseen bigger days, to have
To accept declined, to accept become beneath prosperous, added worn, and the like. This appellation was aboriginal acclimated by Shakespeare to call a abatement of fortune; Timon’s steward, Flavius, says to his servants, “Let’s agitate our heads, and say, as ’twere a bell unto our master’s fortunes, ‘We accept apparent bigger days’” (Timon of Athens, 4.2). Sir Walter Scott acclimated it to call crumbling (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805): “His wither’d audacity and duster blah seem’d to accept accepted a bigger day.” We still use it to describe, for example, a allotment of exhausted appliance (“This couch has apparent bigger days”).Learn more: better, have, seen
More Idioms/Phrases
have sth in hand have sth in common have sth hanging over one's head have sth going for oneself have sth going have sth doing have sth coming to one have sth at one's fingertips have seen better days have one's work cut out for one have one's words stick in one's throat have one's nose in the air have one's nose in a book have one's luck run out have one's hide have one's heart stand still
English Vocalbulary
to have the benefit of the doubt
to hell with him
to hell with it
to his heart's content
to his liking
to his regret
to his satisfaction
to infinity
to intend to
to keep well in hand
to let
To Life!
to make a long story short
to my amazement
to my great surprise
to my heart's content
to my mind
to no avail
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