old hat

英语

词源

不详。《牛津英语词典》认为与德语 alter Hut (名词, 字面意思是“旧帽子”)有关。

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形容词

old hat (比较级 more old hat，最高级 most old hat)

1. (俗语) 司空见惯的，老生常谈的；陈腐的，老一套的 （自20世纪）

   近义词：banal、commonplace、cliché、démodé、passé、unchic；亦参见Thesaurus:unfashionable

   • 1946年11月11日, “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，第 1 页:

     In fact, monorails are rather old hat.

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   • 1987年5月8日, 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年5月4日, 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年9月6日, 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

• old-hat

名词

old hat (不可数)

1. (现罕用，古旧) 女阴；(引申义) 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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近义词

• (女阴)： coochie、ladybits、quim；另见Thesaurus:vulva
• (性交)： coitus、horizontal mambo、rumpy-pumpy；另见Thesaurus:copulation

参考资料

• “old hat”，Lexico，Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press，2019–present年.