old hat

英語

詞源

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

old hat (比較級 more old hat，最高級 most old hat)

1. (俗語) 司空見慣的，老生常談的；陳腐的，老一套的 （自20世紀）

   近義詞：banal、commonplace、cliché、démodé、passé、unchic；亦參見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 頁:

     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

名詞

old hat (不可數)

1. (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

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

參考資料

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