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How to use old-hat in a sentence

A deep, beautifying flush swept across the face under the deplorable old hat.

HAPPY HOUSEBETSEY RIDDLE, FREIFRAU VON HUTTEN ZUM STOLZENBERG

Heidi wrapped it round her old hat and laid it on the top of the basket, so that the red package was quite conspicuous.

HEIDIJOHANNA SPYRI

When Lady Tempest visited him the next time, she, to her great astonishment, perceived him still with his old hat on.

The remains of the turkey, a pair of finger-bowls, his old hat—all these came hastily into his mind, and were dismissed.

HAPPY DAYSALAN ALEXANDER MILNE

His music publisher met him in the streets of Paris, wearing a wretched old hat and looking very seedy.

Tesman, you must really tell the housemaid not to leave her old hat about on the drawing-room chairs.

You throw way the clever man like he is old hat, and think you can manage the bank!

THE CALIFORNIANSGERTRUDE FRANKLIN HORN ATHERTON

Some apiarians place an old hat or black stocking in a low bush near at hand, and this is said to induce the bees to alight.

To cock an old hat is to set it jauntingly on the head with the leaf turned up at one side.

On the wheel itself, life was settling into a pattern, with comments about being able to stand upright becoming old hat.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985