do to death

verb2

1. •
   Of a trope, joke, topic, idea, etc, to use so often that it becomes trite.

   • It's hard to find novel screenplays. All the usual stories have been done to death.
2. •
   (no longer used) To put to death.

   • So will I not […] Behold so many of my country men, All done to death and strangled in one day, […] — 1593