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How to sign: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'";
Similiar / Same: hackneyed, old-hat, stock, timeworn, trite, banal, shopworn, well-worn, commonplace
How to sign: having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
"threadbare rugs";
