overworked

• Overworked and underpaid? Then quit your job and become a pro darts player.
• Miss Suu Kyi’s overworked advisers[…]argue that people have to be realistic about what can be achieved in a short time and on a slender budget. - 2013 October 19, “Preparing for success”, in The Economist, volume 409,...
• The truth is that we are too overworked, under capitalism, to be deeply, collectively horny, too overworked even to realise that this is the case. - 2020, Sophie Lewis, “Collective Turn-off”, in Mal:

• overworked, unaffecting cliches
• [Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual. - 2009 July 23, Michael White, “Don't let Anthony Blunt fool us again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
• Dare I say “Let it go” without images of an animated princess flashing before your eyes? If it was an overworked phrase before Frozen, it’s now hard to use the expression without a shudder. - 2015 January 18, Mariella...

Synonyms: clichéd overdone overused banal bathetic bromidic cheesy commonplace corny dog-eared hackneyed hoary overworked pat played out shopworn stale threadbare timeworn tired trite warmed-over well-worn