|
Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
old-hat
1. out of fashion
- a suit of rather antique appearance
- demode (or outmoded) attire
- outmoded ideas
• Syn:
antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, outmoded,
passe, passee
• Similar to:
unfashionable, unstylish
• Derivationally related forms:
old-fashionedness (for: old-fashioned)
2. repeated too often;
overfamiliar through overuse
- bromidic sermons
- his remarks were trite and commonplace
- hackneyed phrases
- a stock answer
- repeating threadbare jokes
- parroting some timeworn axiom
- the trite metaphor 'hard as nails'
• Syn:
banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock,
threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
• Similar to:
unoriginal
• Derivationally related forms:
triteness (for: trite), commonplace (for: commonplace), banality (for: banal)
|
|
|
|
