become stale

Adrian Newey tells BBC Sport's Joe Wilson "it is easy to become stale", but his "passion has always been for trying to find ways to make the car go faster" after joining Aston Martin.

The reasoning was this: I simply could not stand what I had become—stale, perhaps, or stalemated by what appeared to be my faltering body.

They have a charming ensemble of precocious youths and disregarded veterans combining to transform a franchise that had become stale.

"How do you update models that become stale as the world changes around it?"

The team is in last place in the standings, though, on one point from four games so incomings are needed to freshen up a group that might have become stale under manager Brendan Rodgers.