Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very familiar because of repeated telling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Told or related twice; hence, trite; hackneyed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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From there well move with slow cautious steps to gentle verbal sparring, twice-told tales, descriptions of the scarred and darkest places of our old and worn-out souls.
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It's impossible to write a history of neoconservatism without recapitulating twice-told tales.
Rich Lowry's review of books on neocons and the conservative movement
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Still, this is more or less an important episode of Superman, despite being the twice-told tale told twice again (and it won't be the last time, either.)
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It's just that his twice-told tale would be a lot better if its author knew when to shut up.
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But, as I stood wondering, behold, she gave an order to one of her hand-maids and the girl brought me the sum of the collected monies twice-told.
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At this point in his story Matthiessen runs the danger of revisiting twice-told material.
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She replied, ‘For the tale of all this gold twice-told;’ whereat I was confounded and said to myself, ‘This is impossible.’
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As a hungry young hopeful, raised in the Parkside Houses and Co-op City, Price got off to an admirable start with The Wanderers (1974), a loose-knit Bronx myth cycle, set in the early Sixties, that reads like a bunch of twice-told tales honed and crafted to wow upstaters, hillbillies, Californians, and other rubes, about life in the bad old Bronx.
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But not half as well on the second occasion as on the first; for, a twice-told white one seems almost to become a black one, when you are not used to it
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Moreover, if anything be more tedious than a twice-told tale, is it not the repetition of one half told?
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