Adjective
Subjected to too much work.
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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.
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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.
Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.
Usage- Figurative
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overworked, unaffecting cliches
[Tim Garton Ash] is what you might call—overworked phrase—a public intellectual.
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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.