Or are you dragging out that old chestnut about Stalin being atheist? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
If you enjoy drinking wine and eating mussels and being alone with an historic garden with old chestnut and fruit trees and a view over the bay, (wikiaustralia.com)
In fact, he seems to have cribbed most of his book from such old chestnuts as John Henry De Groot's The Shakespeares and «The Old Faith» (1946) and H. Mutschmann and K. Wentersdorf's Shakespeare and Catholicism (1952), both of which he duly cites more than fifty times in a very lightly documented work. (firstthings.com)