Sentences with phrase «tired old phrases»
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To spout out tired old meaningless phrases from an ancient book written by ignorant goatherds?
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They think that repeating phrases like the «great cities of the North», will go down well in Yorkshire, opposed to it sounding like the tired old patter of a used car salesman.
As the American novelist Edmund White has succinctly phrased it: «The spiritual side of life, to be sure, is diminished by jokes... Humor is the enemy of lyric beauty and sadism (Jean Genet is never funny), but their friend - or at least their willing accomplice — is wan humor, weak jokes, old gags, tired one - liners.