hackneyed
英 ['h?kn?d]
美['h?kn?d]
- adj. 陳腐的；平庸的
- v. 出租（馬匹、馬車等）；役使（hackney的過去式）
英英釋意
- 1. 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'"