Rode hard and put up wet

Meaning

An unflattering way to say that someone looks extremely tired, disheveled, or worse for wear. It implies they have been pushed to their absolute limit.

Critical, blunt

Used in a sentence

• He looked like he had been rode hard and put up wet after that ten hour flight.
• That old car looks like it was rode hard and put up wet.
• She felt like she had been rode hard and put up wet after studying all night for finals.