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that tired feeling

that tired feeling noun: an extended lethargy.

that tired feeling: an extended lethargy
Image: Charles I. Hood (1845-1922) patent medicine purveyor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

that tired feeling

  1. An extended lethargy.
    • His great advertising line, “For That Tired Feeling Take Hood's,” has come into national fame.1894 October 14, “In Printer's Ink, the Secret”, in The New York Times, volume XLIV, page 21
    • ... That Tired Feeling is at the bottom of all distressing complaints and is the bane of our latter-day civilization.1894 May, Frank Kraft, “That Tired Feeling”, in The Medical Advance, volume XXXI, number 5, pages 293–4

Origin of that tired feeling

From the advertising slogan "For “That Tired Feeling” take Hood's Sarsaparilla", coined by Charles I. Hood (1845-1922). (See citations.)

Questions about that tired feeling

What does that tired feeling mean?
That tired feeling means an extended lethargy.
What part of speech is that tired feeling?
That tired feeling is a noun.

Words near that tired feeling in the dictionary

  1. that ship has already sailed
  2. that ship has sailed
  3. that tears it
  4. that there
  5. that time of the month
  6. that tired feeling
  7. that train has already left the station
  8. that train has left the station
  9. that was a joke, Joyce
  10. that was it
  11. that was not the wind

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