run one ragged



run one ragged

Exhaust one, as in I've run myself ragged with this project. This idiom alludes to working so hard that one's appearance is reduced to rags. [c. 1920]
See also: one, ragged, run

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
BlossomBLAH-səmEnglish
LariLAH-reeFinnish
Rino-Italian
Rick[rik]
JosuÉho-SWE (Spanish), zho-zoo-E (Portuguese)French, Spanish, Portuguese
Della['delə]