old chestnut

Wilson told me about an old chestnut that’s often repeated in the genealogy community: “All people die twice. The first time is when their heart stops beating. The second time is when people forget about them.”

Not that old chestnut again...

It wasn’t; it was a hoary old chestnut that had already proved its inadequacy.

There’s “a lot going on there,” as people say, which perhaps explains why there’s been relatively little attention on this old chestnut of a take by Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and Republican megadonor who has been a mentor figure to Vance for years.

Consider the old chestnut, “All Greeks are mortal, Socrates is Greek, therefore Socrates is mortal.”