born tired

Definitions

1. 1

   Chronically tired

   Chronically tired; asthenic.

   • God creates the human family, but the mother is the instrument of creation and the child of the tired mother will always be born tired, and there is nothing so pitiful as the child born tired.
   • To the latter reference has been made so repeatedly that it will suffice here to say that the asthenic child is “born tired".
   • Are you one of that vast army which contends that they are "born tired"? If so, you are not a normal, healthy individual.
2. 2

   Lazy

   Lazy; shiftless.

   • But, lord! Young Har never finishes anything – too tired! 'Ang me, sir, if I don't think 'e were born tired!
   • New South Wales is quite literally regarded as a place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest; that is, a paradise for uncles who have turned dishonest and for nephews who are born tired.

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