all tuckered out
(all) tuckered out
Very sleepy or fatigued, especially after long or continuous physical activity. I thought the kids would have been all tuckered out after spending all day at the pool, but they're still full of energy. I'm pretty tuckered out after that hike, to be honest. Climbing up those steps really got my poor old dog all tuckered out.
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all tuckered out
Exhausted. “Tucker” was a 19th-century New England word for “tire” or “used up.”
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price Copyright © 2011 by Steven D. Price
References in classic literature
I was
all tuckered out tryin' to mislead 'em and deceive 'em and sidetrack 'em; but the minute I got where I wa'n't put under a microscope by day an' a telescope by night and had myself TO myself without sayin' `By your leave,' I begun to pick up.
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