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tuckered out
Idioms and Phrases
Exhausted, very tired, as in I was all tuckered out after that game . The precise origin of this usage is not known. [ Colloquial ; 1820s]Example Sentences
Exhaustion can come in one of two ways: either the supply is exhausted, or the body simply is too tuckered out.
I twisted his knife outer his hand, an' I laced him till I was clean tuckered out.
Ive got a Yankee side to me as well as a Southern side; sometimes I get tuckered out tryin to combine em.
"You're clean tuckered out, I declare," said Celestine, half crying herself.
You can feel him flop over, clean tuckered out with kicking and working his arms.
Nothin' much the matter with the little shaver, Madam, only he fell down Foxes' Gully, and is—he's sort of tuckered out.
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