old story

It was about, as James Bond once sighed to Dr. No, “world domination, the same old story.”

In response, Bevin's campaign dismissed the report as "a rehash of an old story."

My latest novel has a kind of improvisatory approach to telling an old story.

My wife repeated the famous old story, and we all chuckled at those long-ago silly fears.

It's the same old story: congressional (and largely though not wholly Republican) bad faith.

He went about his work with an air of its being an old story to him—an air which was at once reassuring and disturbing.

His father's lack of success was an old story and the home-keeping sons were deficient in initiative and energy.

The old story of Boaz and Ruth grew beneath his hands into a delicious idyll of country life.

"Yes, the same old story," acknowledged the man at the door.

It was the old story of the one lost sheep becoming all in all to the shepherd.