old hat

noun
1.
old-fashioned; dated.
2.
trite from having long been used or known.

Origin:
1745–55

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World English Dictionary
old hat
 
adj
(postpositive) old-fashioned or trite

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Old hat is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Word Origin & History

old hat
"out of date," first recorded 1911. As a noun phrase, however, it had a different sense in 18c. The "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (1796) defines it as, "a woman's privities, because frequently felt."
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Cultural Dictionary

old hat definition


Obsolete, old-fashioned: “Get with it, Murray; your methods are strictly old hat.”

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Slang Dictionary

old hat definition


  1. n.
    an old-fashioned thing or person; an outmoded thing or person. : That's just old hat. This is the modern world!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The subcontractor will be responsible for the disconnection and removal of old
  hat pump and thermostat.
More important, so much has changed so quickly that the future-looking early
  stories have become old hat.
In a world of exciting new technologies, stodgy commodities seem old hat.
The new reality was already old hat to many outside the government.
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