Modifies a noun

• path: A well-worn path leads the way along the steep slope to the cave entrance.

• trail: Early next morning I set off heading east along a well-worn trail up what looked like one of the main valleys in the area.

• phrase: To use a well-worn phrase, they were only obeying orders.

• theme: I would love to have a quick new plan for how to thicken faith but I am forced back to our well-worn themes.

• route: The decision to pull SCEN out of SCVO has followed a well-worn public sector route.

• track: Up the flank of Ben Nevis we climb the well-worn pony track, pitched with stones.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: It has to be said that it was fairly well-worn in a number of respects.

• now: Walk up the aisle on the old tiled floor, formerly glazed but now well-worn by the feet of worshippers.