As a caper it leaves this year's other contenders, David Mamet's shopworn Heist and Frank Oz's flaccid The Score, standing.
He also makes shopworn Paris into his kind of city riotously multicultural, as Paris these days is, colourful but a tiny bit claustrophobic and wallpapered with homages to past greats.
His vision of the future is shopworn; other writers have done it before, and better.
THE phrase "paradigm shift", coined to denote a sea-change in mentality or understanding, has become a tad shopworn.
Gosling subtly allows Dean's eager, child-like charisma to become, if not soured, then shopworn, played-out.
His reinventions of shopworn popular songs such as "Tea for Two", define jazz sophistication.
There's the aliases of his colourful business past, and the shopworn gags ("Ed Balls... who can hardly drive a car without crashing it, let alone the economy. Literally, the hit-and-run shadow Chancellor!").
For Tyson fans, much of the show's material is shopworn.
Unlike BookExpo America, which takes place every year in New York at the Javits Center and has a hectic, slightly shopworn vibe, A.W.P. feels like a giant reunion of English majors thrilled to be back at school.
"Turning federal programs into block grants is a shopworn idea with a long history of disappointment," Peter Edelman, the Georgetown Law professor and former aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, wrote earlier this year, when Rubio released, with fanfare, his proposal.
Seven decades after the birth of the Empire State Building, the skyscraper had, he concluded, become a shopworn form.
