appear to be very tired, burn out, run down After a divorce and a funeral, Anne looked like she'd been dragged through a knothole.
dragged
highly intoxicated:"After 3 pitchers I was dragged"
look like sth the cat dragged in
Idiom(s): look like sth the cat dragged in
Theme: DISORDER
to look very shabby, worn, exhausted, or abused. (Informal. Sometimes with drug.) • That new sofa of theirs looks like something the cat dragged in. • Poor Dave looks like something the cat drug in. He must have been out late last night.
feel dragged out
Idiom(s): feel dragged out
Theme: EXHAUSTION
to feel exhausted. (Informal.) • What a day! I really feel dragged out. • If he runs too much, he ends up feeling dragged out.
Look what the cat dragged in
This idiom is used when someone arrives somewhere looking a mess or flustered and bothered.
look like something the cat dragged in Appear completely bedraggled, as in After running around in the rain for hours, I looked like something the cat dragged in. This expression alludes to a cat's bringing home birds or mice it has killed or savaged. [c. 1920]
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