1833 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 18 June In short, it is a re-hash of the bill of last year.

1849 G. C. Lewis Let. 5 Apr. (1870) 202 It is merely a re-hash of his old opinions, seasoned with some new abuse of the Colonial Office.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Oct. 3/1 To-day this rehash of the stale commonplaces of last recess is simply unreadable.

1921 Mind 30 293 It is a mere re-hash of Zola's original information.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 621/3 The seedy group of coffee-bar philosophers..spouting their sad rehash of dated Fascist clichés.

1989 R. Pflaum Grand Obsession xvii. 293 They had learned from experience that most similar lectures were invariably a rehash of previously reported work.

2005 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 18/3 The movie is helmed by F Gary Gray, a second-rate cinematic whose last pic was a pointless rehash of The Italian Job.

1820 ‘B. Cornwall’ Gyges in Sicilian Story 123 Some hash the orts of others, and re-hash.

c1822 W. Maginn Byron's Werner ii. i. 148 (note) Ulric is..the Giaour,..rehashed and served up as a Bohemian.

1829 Q. Rev. Jan. 9 We must leave Roland the Bold and Hildegunde the Fair..to such as can be pleased with romantic stories re-hashed by Dr. Granville.

1884 Manch. Examiner 21 May 5/1 All they did was to rehash the old exploded arguments.

1915 J. B. Cabell Let. 14 Mar. (1975) 4 You are at liberty..to rehash at discretion.

1935 A. L. Rowse Diary 24 Mar. (2003) 85 This poor quarter..never fails to interest me with its Grey Friars Building, rehashed in the seventeenth century with a baroque doorway in plaster.

1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) x. 277 They couldn't let all the competition see it and re-hash it for their own later editions.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Apr. 4/3 The Irish turn in Joyce studies may simply rehash..what has already been written elsewhere.

1903 Globe Mar. 217 He was not a wreck of reason when he went carefully and withdrew all his savings from the various banks... But we will not rehash the details. All of us have had our moments of weakness.

1931 Z. N. Hurston Let. 20 Jan. in Life in Lett. (2002) 204 I have explained myself so that I see no need to rehash it.

1942 Chicago Sunday Tribune 15 Mar. ii. 3/8 The Sox, except for casual exercises, just sat around and rehashed yesterday's dismal performance in which they assimilated a 13 to 3 beating at the hands of the Cubs.

1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Dec. (1970) 340 Our houseguests..were all gathered around Lyndon rehashing the events of the evening.

1986 G. Baxt Alfred Hitchcock Murder Case (1987) vi. 75 Now let's stop dwelling on the past because you'll have to rehash all this for Alma.

2004 Chess Jan. 21/3 They then repaired to a Chinese restaurant for their usual twelve-course dinner and re-hashed the game.

1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 698/1 A set of rehashed jokes, by the reverend jester of the Edinburgh, Sydney Smyth, who obviously is growing very old.

1912 G. M. Hyde Newspaper Reporting ix. 125 The terms ‘rewrite story’ and ‘follow-up, or follow, story’, are names which newspaper men apply to the rehashed or revised versions of other news stories.

1998 Meat Trades Jrnl. 15 Apr. 5/2 Supermarkets today are demanding completely new products, not just rehashed old ones.

1828 Blackwood's Mag. July 52/2 They present us with no new and vigorous creations... In their eyes the value..is in the cookery, and such hashing and rehashing,..as they are compelled to employ, it is altogether marvellous to contemplate.

1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Sept. 36/4 There's a lot of rehashing of old issues that no longer seem very important.

2004 Daily Tel. 2 Apr. 20/3 Its lobotomised rehashing of already groan-worthy gags from the original.