Thesaurus / old chestnut
other words for old chestnut
MOST RELEVANT
- banal
- corny
- stale
- threadbare
- timeworn
- trite
- well-worn
- antiquated
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- everyday
- familiar tune
- hokey
- moth-eaten
- obsolete
- old
- old-chestnut
- old-hat
- old-saw
- out-of-date
- outdated
- outmoded
- overworked
- pedestrian
- played-out
- quotidian
- run-of-the-mill
- stereotyped
- stock
- tripe
- unoriginal
- worn-out
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
And furthermore, I imagine something else about this—quite unlike the old Bible—I imagine all of it periodically revised.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The old man seemed to be greatly agitated, and hurriedly whispering, "We thought you were never coming, sir!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
He made me think of an old time magician more than anything, and I felt that with a touch of his wand he could transform us all.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
WORDS RELATED TO OLD CHESTNUT
- banality
- boiler plate
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- cliché
- commonplace
- corn
- evenness
- familiar tune
- flatness
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- monotony
- motto
- old chestnut
- old story
- potboiler
- prosaicism
- proverb
- saw
- shibboleth
- stereotype
- tag
- trite remark
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- vapidity
- verbiage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.