fortærsket

Danish

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

1. (idiomatic) often repeated, hackneyed

References

“fortærsket” in Den Danske Ordbog