RichThesaurus
laid on with a trowel
vs
overworked
laid on with a trowel
overworked
adj
Subjected to too much work.
Having been overused such that it has lost its meaning; trite; banal.
How often have the words
laid on with a trowel
and
overworked
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)