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hackneyed

  • 1 ižvakan

    pp & adj chewed up; thoroughly chewed I fig ižvakan e teme hackneyed/tired/stale/ /worn-out subjects ižvakanost f fig staleness, hackneyed quality (-anost)

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > ižvakan

  • 2 otrcan

    shabby, worn out
    * * *
    • scruffy
    • trite
    • threadbare
    • shabby
    • sordid
    • stale
    • punk
    • fiddling
    • farcical
    • hackneyed
    • frumpy
    • banal
    • corny
    • platitudinous
    • mangy

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > otrcan

  • 3 otrčati

    vt pf wear out, make threadbare/shabby/ /tattered, wear to rags/tatters; fig make stale/ /hackneyed, wear thin, overwork
    * * *
    • run off

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > otrčati

  • 4 otrcati se

    vr pf become shabby/seedy/threadbare/frayed ltd. (- otrcan); wear out, fray, be out of elbows, be down at the heel (BE at heel); fig become hackneyed/tired/stale/ /overworked, wear thin

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > otrcati se

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  • Hackneyed — Pays d’origine  Allemagne Genre musical Death Metal Années d activité Depuis 2007 Labels …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Hackneyed — Allgemeine Informationen Genre( …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • hackneyed — hackneyed; un·hackneyed; …   English syllables

  • hackneyed — meaning ‘made commonplace or trite by overuse’, is spelt eyed. For hackneyed phrases, see clichés …   Modern English usage

  • hackneyed — index familiar (customary), mundane, nondescript, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, stale, trite …   Law dictionary

  • hackneyed — (adj.) 1769, kept for hire, pp. adjective from HACKNEY (Cf. hackney). The figurative sense of trite, so overused as to have become uninteresting is older, 1749, from HACK (Cf. hack) (n.2) in special sense of one who writes anything for hire …   Etymology dictionary

  • hackneyed — *trite, stereotyped, threadbare, shopworn Analogous words: antiquated, archaic, obsolete, antediluvian, *old: worn, wasted (see HAGGARD): attenuated, diluted (see THIN vb) Contrasted words: fresh, novel, original, *new …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • hackneyed — [adj] clichéd, tired antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny*, everyday, familiar tune*, hokey*, moth eaten*, obsolete, old, old chestnut*, old hat*, old saw*, outdated, outmoded, outof date, overworked, pedestrian*, played… …   New thesaurus

  • hackneyed — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a phrase or idea) unoriginal and trite. ORIGIN from the obsolete verb hackney «use a horse for general purposes», later «make commonplace by overuse» …   English terms dictionary

  • hackneyed — [hak′nēd΄] adj. made trite by overuse SYN. TRITE …   English World dictionary

  • Hackneyed — Hackney Hack ney, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hackneyed} ( n[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hackneying}.] 1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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