Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - well-trodden

1. A well-trodden path is used regularly by a large number of people, and therefore looks worn and is easy to see. He made his way along a well-trodden path towards the shed. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. You can use well-trodden, especially in expressions such as a well-trodden path and well-trodden ground, to indicate that a plan or course of action has been tried by a lot of people and so the result of it is easy to predict. Political power has long been a well-trodden path to personal wealth... These working parties will be going over well-trodden ground. ADJ: usu ADJ n