Add in some well-worn movie tropes, a list of outrageous horror movie kills and a “TRL”-friendly soundtrack and that’s essentially the movie.

It’s both broad enough to cover everything, from coffee chains to cookie commercials, yet predictable enough for the factions’ opinions to fall roughly along well-worn partisan lines.

The young Lakers coach was about to use a well-worn coaching adage, chuckling at the absurdity of offering a “back in my day” to anyone listening.

Allow me to trot out a well-worn phrase that we hear just about every election, how this one is the most important of our lifetime.

Harris returned to well-worn themes such as reproductive freedom, love for country and exhaustion with a decade of rancorous politics.