Threadbare

a.	1.	Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
	2.	Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.

Adj.	1.	threadbare - 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'" Synonyms: hackneyed, old-hat, stock, timeworn, trite, well-worn, tired, shopworn, banal, commonplace
	2.	threadbare - having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs"

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