same old thing
Example Sentences
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It also was a lesson for fans like me who took time to warm up to it: Following an artist on his personal journey could mean more over time than demanding the same old thing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
In a lot of ways, it’s the same old thing: copyright holders being worried about new technology and them not getting paid appropriately for it.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2024
He also wrote this: “Problem is, if you’re doing the same old thing that everybody else is doing, that’s who you become — everybody else.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
Yet you don’t become legendary by doing the same old thing, and Coleman was confident and fearless in his artistry.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
It was the same old thing that I had gone through a hundred times.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
