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]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jepson	JEP-sən	English (Rare)
Sheherazade	-	Literature
Stefanus	-	Dutch
Aya	ah-yah	Japanese
Emil	E-mil (Swedish), E-meel (German, Polish), e-MEEL (English)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian,
Yuhanna	-	Arabic