old chestnut
英 美
I will be happy if... I still hear this old chestnut.
如果……我就会感到快乐直到现在我仍然能听到这句老话。
Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut.
在上文中引用的林肯的叹息有点老生常谈。
It's that old chestnut: life imitating art, or art imitating life?
还是那个老话题：是生活模仿艺术，还是艺术模仿生活？
