英语词汇“old chestnut”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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old chestnut

old chestnut n. colloquial a joke, story, etc., that is often repeated; something trite, stale, or clichéd.

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1883 La Porte City (Iowa) Rev. 5 Apr. The brightest and best of the after-dinner stories with which Oscar Wilde is regaling his Parisian friends is that old ‘chestnut’ about the sign ‘Please don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best’.

1978 Language 54 401 Most of the arguments discussed..are old chestnuts.

1994 i-D Oct. 32/2 The whole idea..is that I'm taking the oldest stories, the old chestnuts you've seen before.

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单词	old chestnut
释义	> as lemmas old chestnut old chestnut n. colloquial a joke, story, etc., that is often repeated; something trite, stale, or clichéd. ΚΠ 1883 La Porte City (Iowa) Rev. 5 Apr. The brightest and best of the after-dinner stories with which Oscar Wilde is regaling his Parisian friends is that old ‘chestnut’ about the sign ‘Please don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best’. 1978 Language 54 401 Most of the arguments discussed..are old chestnuts. 1994 i-D Oct. 32/2 The whole idea..is that I'm taking the oldest stories, the old chestnuts you've seen before. extracted from oldadj. < as lemmas
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