strung-out shape
strung-out shape
A state of severe mental exhaustion, especially due to stress, anxiety, drug withdrawal, lack of sleep, etc. We'd been awake for nearly 48 hours trying to get the generators working, so we were all in pretty strung-out shape. Look, I know you're in strung-out shape from dealing with all this legal stuff, but we need to sit down and talk through all our options.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
strung-out shape
n. a tired and exhausted condition. They were sort of in strung-out shape, tired and ready for the sack.
See also: shape
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- sink down
- awake
- awake to
- awoke
- flack out
- take a lot out of
- take a lot out of (one)
- weak at the knees
- whacked out
- wacked