Meanings
- 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 212 more examples
... 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 293–4He knows that “that tired feeling” may be most acute at the beginning of the spell of work, and wear away as one warms up.
1922, Boyd Fisher, Mental Causes of Accidents, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 225
Origin
From the advertising slogan "For “That Tired Feeling” take Hood's Sarsaparilla", coined by Charles I. Hood (1845-1922). (See citations.)
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