old hat
英語[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
不詳。《牛津英語詞典》認為與德語 alter Hut (名詞, 字面意思是「舊帽子」)有關。
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形容詞[編輯]
old hat (比較級 more old hat,最高級 most old hat)
- (俗語) 司空見慣的,老生常談的;陳腐的,老一套的 (自20世紀)
- 1946 11月 11, 「New Plays in Manhattan」, 出自 Time[1]:
- Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.
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- 1964 July, 「The mythology of monorails」, 出自 Modern Railways,頁號 1:
- In fact, monorails are rather old hat.
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- 1987 5月 8, Elaine Sciolino, 「Washington Talk: The Hart Story Grips the Capital」, 出自 New York Times[2]:
- It is old hat for a sex scandal to bring down a politician.
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- 2007 5月 4, Fredrick Kunkle, Paul Duggan, 「Straining for a Glimpse of Royalty」, 出自 Washington Post[3]:
- Based on the size of the crowd, perhaps the queen is old hat.
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- 2021 9月 6, Zack Handlen, 「Rick And Morty ends its fifth season looking for an escape hatch」, 出自 AV Club[4]:
- The only real knock against 「Mortshall」 is that 「Rick and Morty get sick of each other and split up for a while」 feels kind of old hat at this point—the comic premise of the show requires their relationship to be toxic (because a lot of the humor comes from seeing Rick be a shit and seeing Morty try haplessly to deal with Rick being a shit), and they can only try and sell the illusion that anything is going to change so many times before it starts to get stale.
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其他形式[編輯]
名詞[編輯]
- (現罕用,古舊) 女陰;(引申義) 性交
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, letter XI:
- Upon which she very pertly reply'd, She had done that not with a Design to affront but to convince me of the Value she had for my Present; for that if the Pedantick Blockhead should come, he should only have a little bit of Old-Hat to stay his Stomach, till he got to some Harlot of his own Puritanical Flock […]
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- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
- 'Tis a Nest, a Niche, an Old Hat, an Omnibus, an Oyster, a Palace o' Pleasure.
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近義詞[編輯]
- (女陰): coochie、ladybits、quim;另見Thesaurus:vulva
- (性交): coitus、horizontal mambo、rumpy-pumpy;另見Thesaurus:copulation
參考資料[編輯]
- 「old hat」, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.