fortærsket

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Danish

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Etymology

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for- (mis-, excessively) +‎ tærsket (thresh), the metaphor maybe being trying to extract grain from chaff after it has been exhausted. Compare German abgedroschen.

Adjective

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fortærsket (plural and definite singular attributive fortærskede, comparative mere fortærsket, superlative (predicative) mest fortærsket, superlative (attributive) mest fortærskede)

  1. (idiomatic) often repeated, hackneyed

References

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fortærsket” in Den Danske Ordbog