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twice-told

adj

Definitions

  1. hackneyed

    hackneyed; cliché

    • a twice-told tale
    • […] 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.
    • 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.

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