old chestnut 的定义
- A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb. This expression comes from William Dimond's play, The Broken Sword, in which one character keeps repeating the same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time by another character who says “Chestnut, you mean . . . I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times and I am sure it was a chestnut.”
old chestnut 近义词
等同于 hackneyed
old chestnut 的近义词 33 个
- banal
- corny
- stale
- threadbare
- timeworn
- trite
- well-worn
- antiquated
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- everyday
- familiar tune
- hokey
- moth-eaten
- obsolete
- old
- old-chestnut
- old-hat
- old-saw
- out-of-date
- outdated
- outmoded
- overworked
- pedestrian
- played-out
- quotidian
- run-of-the-mill
- stereotyped
- stock
- tripe
- unoriginal
- worn-out
old chestnut 的反义词 4 个
等同于 platitude
old chestnut 的近义词 32 个
- banality
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- commonplace
- corn
- evenness
- flatness
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- monotony
- motto
- potboiler
- proverb
- saw
- shibboleth
- stereotype
- tag
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- vapidity
- verbiage
- boiler plate
- cliché
- familiar tune
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- old story
- prosaicism
- trite remark
old chestnut 的反义词 2 个
等同于 banality
old chestnut 的近义词 20 个
- platitude
- adage
- boiler
- buzzword
- chestnut
- corn
- hokum
- plate
- saw
- trivia
- triviality
- truism
- cliché
- dullsville
- familiar tune
- high camp
- old saw
- prosaicism
- prosaism
- trite phrase
old chestnut 的反义词 2 个
等同于 fable
old chestnut 的近义词 20 个
- platitude
- adage
- boiler
- buzzword
- chestnut
- corn
- hokum
- plate
- saw
- trivia
- triviality
- truism
- cliché
- dullsville
- familiar tune
- high camp
- old saw
- prosaicism
- prosaism
- trite phrase
old chestnut 的反义词 2 个
等同于 anecdote
更多old chestnut例句
- So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
- It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
- To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
- He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
- Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.
- Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
- His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
- Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
- Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
- But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.