well-worn
Meanings
- showing signs of much wear or use
- 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'"