老lou5生sang1常soeng4談taam4

simp老生常谈

lou5 sang1 soeng4 taam4lǎo shēng cháng tán

English

an old observation (idiom)
platitude
a truism
banal comments
platitude; cliché; literally: platitudes of an old scholar

粵語 — Cantonese

成日用而冇新意嘅説話

Examples

今天的激进也许是明天的老生常谈。
What's radical today may be cliché tomorrow.
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Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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