twice-told

English

Adjective

twice-told (not comparable)

  1. hackneyed; cliché
    a twice-told tale
    • 2001, Frederick Bernays Wiener, Briefing and Arguing Federal Appeals, page 387:
      […] 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.
    • 2011, John Pier, José Angel Garcia Landa, Theorizing Narrativity, page 419:
      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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