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

[ Syn: banal , commonplace , hackneyed , old-hat , shopworn , stock , timeworn , tired , trite , well-worn ]

having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; threadbare rugs'