old hat

Maybe the headlines about looming shutdown deadlines feel like old hat, at this point.

“Even though they were only a couple of years older than the Beatles, they were treated as old hat,” says Mazor.

Setting fires to garbage cans in the middle of a street is old hat — how about providing shelter to undocumented families living with the terrifying reality that their time in this country might soon be up?

One-time hick-hop rapper Jelly Roll is old hat at songs to soundtrack shirking child support payments, but he’s found a bit of a new lane in the path blazed by Wallen.

In that sense, Donald Trump represents something that might be considered old hat in this world of ours: the decline of empire.