old ˈhat

  • 1old hat — {adj.}, {informal} Old fashioned; not new or different. * /By now, putting satellites in orbit is old hat to space scientists./ * /Andrea thought her mother s ideas about dating were old hat./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 2old hat — {adj.}, {informal} Old fashioned; not new or different. * /By now, putting satellites in orbit is old hat to space scientists./ * /Andrea thought her mother s ideas about dating were old hat./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 3Old Hat — could refer to: The 1972 song Old Hat from the album Uncle Dog by the group of the same name The 1997 song Old Hat from the album Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? by Harvey Danger Old Hat Stakes, an annual horse race in Florida Old Hat, a… …

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  • 4old hat — adjective INFORMAL 1. ) old fashioned and boring: She reckoned jazz was old hat. 2. ) not interesting because people have known it for a long time: I hear they got married. That s old hat, they re almost divorced! …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 5old hat — adj [not before noun] if something is old hat, a lot of people have said or done the same thing before and it is therefore not new or interesting ▪ Most of this is probably old hat to you, isn t it? …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6old-hat — pred. adj. same as {old fashioned}, a., 2. [Narrower terms: {unfashionable (vs. fashionable)}] Syn: antique, old fashioned, outmoded, out of date, passe, passee. [WordNet 1.5] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 7old hat — If something s old hat, it seems rather old fashioned and dated …

    The small dictionary of idiomes

  • 8old hat — old fashioned, not new or different The job has become old hat and I am becoming a little tired of it …

    Idioms and examples

  • 9old hat — old′ hat′ adj. 1) old fashioned; dated 2) trite; hackneyed • Etymology: 1745 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 10old hat — n. Slang 1. old fashioned; out of date 2. well known or familiar to the point of being trite or commonplace: Used predicatively …

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