twice-told
English
Adjective
twice-told (not comparable)
- hackneyed; cliché
- 2001, Frederick Bernays Wiener, Briefing and Arguing Federal Appeals (page 387)
- […] the fact that repetition makes for dullness and that a fresh mind may well be able to introduce a new and hence a more effective approach to what has become rather more than a twice-told tale.
- 2011, John Pier, José Angel Garcia Landa, Theorizing Narrativity (page 419)
- I am aware that the story of “the story within the story” is itself a twice-told tale, but nonetheless I will tell it again, hoping to make it yield some additional meaning—if my initial contention is right.
- 2001, Frederick Bernays Wiener, Briefing and Arguing Federal Appeals (page 387)