Who'd have thought anyone could make that old chestnut work?

I should have known she'd bring up that old chestnut.

It's an old chestnut that war is good for the economy.

The second point that I consider important is the old chestnut of the ‘brain drain’.

They tried to slip that old chestnut by every year.

So much for that old chestnut about teachers having their summers off.

Thus James lays to rest the old chestnut "write what you know."

But this argument is now an old chestnut in strategic thinking.

"The fact is the public wants to hear those old chestnuts.

So you can excuse theater companies for trying to come up with new takes on this old chestnut, just to keep things interesting.

Gradually they made their way around the big old chestnut trees into the orchard.

Mostly it was that good old chestnut - missing morning parade.

Oh for goodness sake, not this old chestnut - again!

And maybe even the old chestnut, what caused it?

Maybe she'd even heard that old chestnut about a mage, his money, and failure.

And, yes the tired old chestnut is true, my profession makes all other professions possible.

There was the other old chestnut about a werewolf being employed in the Watch, too.

What the audience may be responding to is that old chestnut, the integrated book musical.

I think the old chestnut is "Old soldiers never die",but they do seem to cause others to.

Or, to quote an old chestnut of my mom's: "Five years from now, will it matter?"

The rest are nice versions of old chestnuts that have been heard before many an open fire."

That would leave old chestnuts like the 28-letter antidisestablishmentarianism in the shade.

I blew out smoke as I told them an old chestnut.

Here comes that old chestnut about the "black" perspective and the Black people being left out.

THE generals, the old chestnut goes, are always fighting the last war.