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'" banalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstockthreadbaretimeworntiredtritewell-worn
having the nap worn away so that the threads show through "threadbare rugs" threadbare