Sentence examples for an old chestnut from inspiring English sources

DOWELL -- That's an old chestnut.

Liberty Mutual fell back on an old chestnut to explain the indefinite postponement: an "unfavorable environment".

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut.

This is an old chestnut that gives Reagan too much credit.

It's an old chestnut, but let's just take another bite at it.

RSA being a bid target is an old chestnut but 190p per share?

Furthermore, a hoary old chestnut of a ballet, one of two half-hour condensations, is galvanized within an inch of its life.The program covers quite a lot perhaps too much.

Try a hoary old chestnut.

It's a hoary old chestnut, but who can blame her for the reminder?

It's a fogyish old chestnut, but true enough in the context of young writers - for example Richard Mason and Jenn Crowell - who have found their careers more or less paralysed by overpromotion.

Ooh er; bit of a hoary old chestnut.