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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)
- (idiomatic) often repeated, hackneyed
References
“fortærsket” in Den Danske Ordbog