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单词 old hat
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Definition of old hat in English:

old hat

noun
mass nouninformal
  • Something tediously familiar or outdated.

    last year's electronics are already old hat
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And the media news cycle gets faster by the day, so that by lunchtime that morning press conference is old hat.
    • I know this is old hat, but I only heard the figure this morning.
    • To the insiders or those who paid attention to the news over the past eight years, this is old hat.
    • The firm is betting that in this fear-filled world, security swipe cards will soon be old hat.
    • She's part of the generation for whom the internet is old hat, and newspapers are still a bit mysterious.
    • Lavish, big-screen adaptations of beloved boyhood comic-books have become so old hat.
    • The telephone, the camera, the photocopier, the fax machine are all old hat, but they remain for me no less mysterious than the miracles of Christ.
    • Of course the producer keeps playing with the guitar part as a sample, but that's old hat by now.
    • ‘The trouble with filming is once they've filmed you, you are old hat,’ said Mr Bagot.
    • If you are a methodical man, some of this may be old hat or even too obvious, but for the majority it may well be news!
    • It was June and the fact that the days were getting longer was old hat by now.
    • I know it is old fashioned, and old hat, but Terry loves a good yarn.
    • Dare one suggest that the newspaper style is old hat, and that a new generation has had to move into a new medium to find the space for what is really a new activity?
    • He was probably old hat to many of you, but he was brand spanking new to me.
    • So, you know what is - what is sort of banal and old hat to one group of people, is brand new to another group of people.
    • I'm sure I can't be the first person to mention this so apologies if it's old hat.
    • One day the bubble will burst, and mobile phones will be declared old hat.
    • Suddenly native plants were thought dull, common and old hat; gardeners began to reject them, banishing them as weeds.
    • They had already been around most of the stalls before I got there, so a lot of it was old hat for them by that stage.
    • Then I don't bother to write because the issues will be old hat by the time I get round to them.
    Synonyms
    out of date, outdated, dated, old-fashioned, out, out of fashion, outmoded, unfashionable, last year's, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outworn, old, old-time, old-world, behind the times, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct
    medieval, prehistoric, antediluvian, old-fogeyish, old-fangled, conservative, backward-looking, quaint, anachronistic, crusted, feudal, fusty, moth-eaten, olde worlde
    French passé, démodé, vieux jeu
    informal square, not with it, out of the ark, creaky, clunky, mouldy
    North American informal horse-and-buggy, rinky-dink, mossy
    archaic square-toed

Definition of old hat in US English:

old hat

nounˌoʊl(d) ˈhætˌōl(d) ˈhat
informal
  • Used to refer to something considered uninteresting, predictable, tritely familiar, or old-fashioned.

    〈非正式〉老花招;老一套

    last year's electronics are already old hat
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One day the bubble will burst, and mobile phones will be declared old hat.
    • Then I don't bother to write because the issues will be old hat by the time I get round to them.
    • So, you know what is - what is sort of banal and old hat to one group of people, is brand new to another group of people.
    • It was June and the fact that the days were getting longer was old hat by now.
    • I'm sure I can't be the first person to mention this so apologies if it's old hat.
    • The firm is betting that in this fear-filled world, security swipe cards will soon be old hat.
    • If you are a methodical man, some of this may be old hat or even too obvious, but for the majority it may well be news!
    • I know it is old fashioned, and old hat, but Terry loves a good yarn.
    • They had already been around most of the stalls before I got there, so a lot of it was old hat for them by that stage.
    • To the insiders or those who paid attention to the news over the past eight years, this is old hat.
    • Dare one suggest that the newspaper style is old hat, and that a new generation has had to move into a new medium to find the space for what is really a new activity?
    • She's part of the generation for whom the internet is old hat, and newspapers are still a bit mysterious.
    • And the media news cycle gets faster by the day, so that by lunchtime that morning press conference is old hat.
    • Of course the producer keeps playing with the guitar part as a sample, but that's old hat by now.
    • Suddenly native plants were thought dull, common and old hat; gardeners began to reject them, banishing them as weeds.
    • Lavish, big-screen adaptations of beloved boyhood comic-books have become so old hat.
    • He was probably old hat to many of you, but he was brand spanking new to me.
    • The telephone, the camera, the photocopier, the fax machine are all old hat, but they remain for me no less mysterious than the miracles of Christ.
    • I know this is old hat, but I only heard the figure this morning.
    • ‘The trouble with filming is once they've filmed you, you are old hat,’ said Mr Bagot.
    Synonyms
    out of date, outdated, dated, old-fashioned, out, out of fashion, outmoded, unfashionable, last year's, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outworn, old, old-time, old-world, behind the times, archaic, obsolescent, obsolete, ancient, antiquated, superannuated, defunct
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