be a shadow of your former self
Definition
› to have less health or strength, or less influence, than you did before: He came home from hospital cured of the disease but a shadow of his former self.Not fit and healthyThin or slender (of people)
(Definition of be a shadow of your former self from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- complain of sth phrasal verb
- crook adjective
- far gone adjective
- frailty noun
- gaunt adjective
- groggy adjective
- hollow-eyed adjective
- ill adjective (NOT WELL)
- indisposition noun
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