threadbare vs used up

threadbare

adj
  • damaged or shabby 

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

  • wearing clothes of threadbare material 

  • banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed 

used up

adj
  • Worn out; depleted; exhausted; having nothing left; useless, due to the expenditure of all resources. 

How often have the words threadbare and used up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )