hand-me-down vs threadbare

hand-me-down

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

noun
  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

threadbare

adj
  • shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show 

  • damaged or shabby 

  • wearing clothes of threadbare material 

  • banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed 

How often have the words hand-me-down and threadbare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )