in rags
Wearing worn tatters
In rags describes someone wearing torn, tattered, or extremely worn clothing, typically suggesting poverty or destitution: The children came to the door in rags.
The phrase can also describe clothing itself that has deteriorated to a shabby state: His coat was in rags after years of wear.
- frayedUnraveled at edges
- tatteredRipped and worn out
- shabbyWorn and neglected
- destituteUtterly without means
- threadbareWorn until transparent
torn · patched · impoverished · penniless · down and out · holes · worn-out · garments · struggling · hand to mouth · beggar · street urchin · deprived · disheveled · shame · barefoot · indigent · hardship
in ragswell-dressed
Clothed with care
dressed to the nines · dressed to kill · well-groomed · presentable
in ragswell-dressed
Clothed with care
well-groomed · dapper · natty · well-turned-out · spick and span
rag, ragged, ragging, ragamuffin, ragtime, raggedly, raggedness