Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
old-fashioned , a., 2.
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- adjective See
old hat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective out of fashion
- adjective repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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Examples
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Only a reference to the now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital and two of Wendall K. Harrington's many evocative projections -- one of the Twin Towers, one of the shuttered West Village eatery, Joe Jr., -- are in any way old-hat.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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And that includes the young people who are just making their own rules and have decided that many of the current beauty truisms are just old-hat.
Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011
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Only a reference to the now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital and two of Wendall K. Harrington's many evocative projections -- one of the Twin Towers, one of the shuttered West Village eatery, Joe Jr., -- are in any way old-hat.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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An evening that should feel like the climax of the Ad Bowl instead came off as anticlimactic and as old-hat as Madonna's stubbornly stiff halftime performance.
Roush Review: Not Much R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Super Bowl Ads 2012
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And that includes the young people who are just making their own rules and have decided that many of the current beauty truisms are just old-hat.
Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011
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We decided that the Next Hot Thing will be unicorns, but unicorns as unlike the typical boring sparkly old-hat unicorn as the fast zombies in 28 Days Later were unlike the shambling zombies of yore.
Weekend of marvelousness kateyule 2009
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Only a reference to the now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital and two of Wendall K. Harrington's many evocative projections -- one of the Twin Towers, one of the shuttered West Village eatery, Joe Jr., -- are in any way old-hat.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Angels in America Flies on Gossamer Wings David Finkle 2010
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And that includes the young people who are just making their own rules and have decided that many of the current beauty truisms are just old-hat.
Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty Starre Vartan 2011
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It may be that we could be a little more forgiving toward new endeavors because, as the Guardian said, something being done for the first time is far more likely to be sloppy than an old-hat formula that everyone's had over a decade to iterate on.
Archive 2008-11-01 SVGL 2008
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It may be that we could be a little more forgiving toward new endeavors because, as the Guardian said, something being done for the first time is far more likely to be sloppy than an old-hat formula that everyone's had over a decade to iterate on.
We Built Another World SVGL 2008
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