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Significados de old chestnut en inglés

Old, hackneyed joke or music.

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Examples for "chestnut"
Examples for "chestnut"
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The breeze hollowed out undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees.
Les Misérables
2
The matin birds began their song in the chestnut-tree near the window.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 1
3
Jeannette declares that the chestnut days are the best in the year.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats ...
4
Because of its high initial moisture content, the chestnut is quite perishable.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
5
The horse-chestnut you mention in the garden was planted by my mother.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
Uso de old chestnut en inglés
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By all means, let us ease the old chestnut into well-deserved retirement.
The new yorker
2
He talks about the orgasmic scheme of the world; that old chestnut.
The Guardian
3
We can start 2020 by throwing that old chestnut under a bus.
Independent.ie
4
Like the old chestnut one of the driver picking up the hitch-hiker.
The Irish Times
5
THAT old chestnut about the students learning lessons was, for once, applicable yesterday.
The Irish Times
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Also for trying to impose upon me with an old chestnut.
Remarks
7
That faded old chestnut just walking up to get in line?
Alcatraz
8
Forget that old chestnut about women being better drivers than men.
The Irish Times
9
The noctules came from the hollow in the old chestnut.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
10
Of course the old chestnut was dying; but that did not concern the noctules.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
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The old chestnut about entrepreneurs never giving up is actually true in most cases.
The Irish Times
12
The old chestnut about Manchester United and their vulnerable midfield grows ever more relevant.
The Guardian
13
All that remained was that old chestnut, much loved by those internal medicine types.
Love is the best medicine: what two dogs taught one veterinarian...
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Same old chestnut I've been handed out all my life.
The Honorable Percival
15
An old chestnut, then, probably, but Byron had done it big just the same.
The Young Lions
16
Captain Cock says:- Ifounda nest in the stump of an old chestnut-treeat Murree.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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