old-hat
- s repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- s out of fashion
- The first is old-hat, the second a bit sick.
- For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a .
- Although it tries to affect a rakishly romantic tilt, Sombrero is mostly old-hat.