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Significados de old chestnut em inglês

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Uso de old chestnut em inglês
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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
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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
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That faded old chestnut just walking up to get in line?
Alcatraz
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Forget that old chestnut about women being better drivers than men.
The Irish Times
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The noctules came from the hollow in the old chestnut.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
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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
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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
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An old chestnut, then, probably, but Byron had done it big just the same.
The Young Lions
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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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