hackneyed

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English - Turkish
çok yinelenmiş
basmakalıp

Kötü bir yazarın masalları basmakalıp ifadelerle doludur. - A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

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{s} sıradan
dile düşmüş
{s} kaşarlanmış
{s} basmakalıp, klişe, bayat
{s} adi
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hackney
bayağı
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çok kullanılmış
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{i} binek atı
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körletmek
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{i} kira arabası
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sokak arabası gibi daima ve her işe kullanmak
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English - English
Simple past tense and past participle of hackney
Repeated too often

The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true. a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often (hackney (16-19 centuries), from hackney (14-20 centuries), probably from Hackney, area in London, England where horses were once kept)
{s} banal, commonplace, trite, unoriginal
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'"

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hackneyed expressions
expression which is used too often, common expression
hackneyed phrase
phrase which is used too often, common phrase
hackneyed phrases
phrase which is used to often, commonplace phrase
Hackney
An English habitational surname
Hackney
A London borough where once upon a time many horses were pastured
hackney
Offered for hire
hackney
To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use
hackney
A breed of English horse
hackney
An ordinary horse
hackney
A carriage for hire or a cab
hackney
To use as a hackney
hackney
A horse used to ride or drive
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to make stale or trite by repetition
hackney
{v} to practice or use one thing much
hackney
{a} common, let for hire
hackney
{n} a hired horse, hireling, prostitute
Hackney
a borough of East London which is a rather poor area
Hackney
Available for public hire. From the London borough where many horses were kept for public hire
Hackney
An English surname
Hackney
One of several breeds of compact English horses. From the London borough where many such animals were kept
hackney
Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors
hackney
a carriage for hire
hackney
a compact breed of harness horse a carriage for hire
hackney
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 quotation
hackney
A horse or pony kept for hire
hackney
{i} hired coach; taxi; horse used to draw a carriage; riding horse
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To carry in a hackney coach
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A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony
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A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute
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A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach
hackney
a compact breed of harness horse
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