One finding could have unintended repercussions, either raising questions about the study's accuracy or putting an end to a tired joke.

There were tired jokes about buckets and spades.

She laughed, maybe a little more than the tired joke deserved.

He had new vassals on every side, and mistreating the sometime plutocrat had become a tired joke.

Ikey cackled at his own tired joke, expecting his grateful customers to do the same.

"Canadian Front: New Films 2004" sounds a bit like the punch line to a very tired joke.

For years, any attempt to probe beneath the senior Bloom's surfaces have been met by a stream of tired jokes of the dog-walks-into-the-bar variety.

This is not an old and tired joke.

These days, the place derives its fame from the tired joke "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?"