On its face, this answer sounds a little shopworn and beside the point.

The particulars were new, but the show felt shopworn anyway.

"Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark."

His defense was not only shopworn by now, but obviously impotent.

The song was no less riveting for being so clearly shopworn.

Is it hard to choose between shopworn shares like these and the shiny new issues?

In any event, it all seems shopworn by now.

But perhaps he wants to adjust his shopworn mantra that on "Day 1, everything changes."

I guess maybe the phrase is a little shopworn!

This "guy with the shopworn face" has been around too long and knows himself too well.

It's a comedy that was already too shopworn for Moliere 300 years ago.

The mere act of campaigning for so long will generally give him a tired and shopworn air.

They are old, shopworn, and generally made of cardboard.

Yet Rina never said a word about replacing his shopworn pieces.

He has chosen the most shopworn of subjects, marital infidelity.

Here the shopworn notion of a "nature trail" has been taken in new and creative directions.

So what need have they of my shopworn exhortations?

Those are shopworn delaying tactics that let politicians avoid hard calls.

If she expected to see a shopworn idol, she was in for a surprise.

None of the dishes looked dried out, discolored or shopworn.

"I'd say you must keep one of our transceivers on your slightly shopworn person at all times.

The Bush campaign dismissed the effort as shopworn posturing.

The debate about whether Rockwell was a good artist is as shopworn as his art.

The wounded-inner-child story line may be a bit shopworn.

"Bus Stop" may believe in the inner virginity of its shopworn heroine.

And it would have to use this ancient, crude, shop-soiled technology.

These are books that have been damaged in our warehouse or are shop-soiled.

Pleasure and horror are always on sale, marked down and only slightly shop-soiled.

He should follow the shop-soiled spin-doctor’s example.

But the interrogation left her feeling unaccountably dirty, like shop-soiled linen on display for all to see.

The result will be a shop-soiled look for the TSB.

There can't be many subjects more shop-soiled and grubby with filmy fingerprints than first love.

This one had a bright, sharp-featured face and a neat little body, but to use a phrase of his grandmother's, she looked shop-soiled.

Dreams and damnations at marked-down prices, and a little shop-soiled.

Even if the musical language is seen as totally shop-soiled, then, it is still possible to rearticulate the fragments.

Everything Evelyn was given came to him 'shop-soiled and second-hand,' and he knew it."

Second prize: two, er, shop-soiled jokes from old Langford fanzines.

Some are barely used, others are company cars, some are simply shop-soiled display models.

If you can cope with the macabre and shop-soiled side of life, then this is 21st-century short story writing of the highest calibre.

We are all Shop-soiled.

Worse, it will be a wonderful opportunity for the punters to humiliate a smug and shop-soiled government without having the Tories back.

He has gone Garbo on us, leaving nothing behind but a depressing string of shop-soiled blondes talking about love, or what you will, with Tiger.

"It's a toxic brew of failure to build support for reform, terrible economic circumstances and elites that are tarnished and shop-soiled."

The shop-soiled Galahad.

Tillyard begins his Rejoinder in chapter two by saying that he thinks the personal heresy is not a sign of modernity, but a bit shop-soiled.

Anyone who heard this play will have recognised all the people, flawed Lefties, shop-soiled Righties and ridiculous governmental aides alike.

Lynn: Well Rawlinson's say you can have another fifty of the shop-soiled chocolate oranges if you plug them again tomorrow.

The snap general election sought by some pundits would be even more futile, with voters facing a familiar line-up of shop-soiled MPs.

"When I think back to 19 years ago when we launched the first oaten biscuits there were large headlines saying 'Shop-soiled Royal'," he said.

Certainly, the coach was in no mood to rubbish the idea, and if it comes to pass, the shop-soiled champions could yet catch their rivals on the hop.