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spare tire 

1. a thickness in the waist; a roll of fat around one's waist. I've got to get rid of this spare tire. The spare tire started when I was twenty-six.

2. an unneeded person; an unproductive person. Gary is a spare tire. Send him home. You spare tires over there! Get to work.

See also: spare

tire someone out

to exhaust someone. The extra work tired him out a lot. Too much work will tire out the horses.

See also: out

tire of someone or something

to grow weary of someone or something. She tired of him and left him. I am beginning to tire of the furniture in the living room.

tire out

to become exhausted. I tire out easily. When I had the flu, I found that I tired out easily.

See also: out

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tire you out

to feel that you do not have any energy Painting the living room in one day really tired Dad out.

See also: out

tire of somebody/something (slightly formal)

to become bored or upset with someone or something I am so tired of him that one day I shall simply ignore him. She was tired of people telling her what to do.