- 1陳腔濫調的；老套的
A hackneyed phrase is one you have heard so many times that the life has gone out of it. It is not exactly wrong; it is just tired. “Every cloud has a silver lining” can feel hackneyed. Teachers, , and people who care about style love the word, so it feels a little literary and a little snobbish. You use it about words, ideas, plots, and pictures, not about a person or a borough. The picture behind it is an old hired horse from Hackney: used too often, worn out. People still make that jump without thinking of East London at all. If you just mean “I have heard this before,” is the plainer cousin.
組成hackney + -ed: originally “used like a hired horse,” then “worn out by too much use.”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hackneyedadj/ˈhæk.nid/
- 1
Repeated too often.
- The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
- It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.
- 2
datedLet out for hire.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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