Meaning & use
old hat
No longer new, interesting, or fashionable; so familiar that it has become boring.
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By the time the app launched, the feature already felt old hat to most users.
Critics said the sequel's plot twists were old hat compared to the original film.
A note on using this word
Old hat is informal and works only as a predicate adjective, coming after a verb like be or feel rather than before a noun.
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