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Definition of old hat in English: old hatnoun mass nouninformal Something tediously familiar or outdated.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Synonyms out of date, outdated, dated, old-fashioned, out, out of fashion, outmoded, unfashionable, last year's, frumpish, frumpy, out of style, outworn, old, old-time, old-world, behind the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 hatnounˌoʊl(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 |