Question of the Day #1315

In the NEWS: Consumer Drug Ads: All Washed Up?

From the headline of this article at the Lipponcott Nursing Center.

  上記の文で、washed upの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "washed up" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

1. 《be ～》〔人が能力的に〕成功の見込みがない、役に立たなくなっている、終わっている、おしまいである
2. 《be ～》〔心身が〕疲れ切っている、ぼろぼろになっている

2番目の訳は、washed outの訳でwashed upの意味ではありません。

 

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

no longer successful, skillful, popular, or needed

 

Examples

1. The tragedy of being a dancer is that you're all washed up by the time you're 35.
2. We are dealing with a washed-up relic of an idea from the last decade that has outlived its usefulness.
3. He ended his career on a dismal losing streak, and was washed-up by age 22.
4. The film, about a group of revolutionaries who reunite to help one of their own — Bob Ferguson, a washed-up, paranoid stoner — rescue his daughter from their longtime enemy, has a lot to say about our fraught, divisive reality. —Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
5. This is what happened last year when their most significant trade-deadline pickup was washed-up pitcher Lance Lynn, or the year before when their major summer acquisition was strikeout-prone outfielder Joey Gallo. Dodgers Clayton Kershaw returns to the Dodgers. —Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024

   

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