అర్థం : Repeated too often. Overfamiliar through overuse.
							ఉదాహరణ : 
							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'.
							
పర్యాయపదాలు : banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
అర్థం : Having the nap worn away so that the threads show through.
							ఉదాహరణ : 
							Threadbare rugs.