"rags and tatters" meaning in English

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        "very old, torn clothes"
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          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "very old, torn clothes",
          "word": "cır-cındır"
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          "word": "haillons"
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          "sense": "very old, torn clothes",
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            "feminine",
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          "word": "Lumpen"
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          "sense": "very old, torn clothes",
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          "word": "andrajos"
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          "text": "December 17 2001, Russell Thomas, The Guardian Sports section.\nFulham's defence was a thing of rags and tatters long before the end."
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        "something ruined; fragments"
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      "sense": "very old, torn clothes",
      "word": "cır-cındır"
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