It might be that we can do the same old thing more swiftly, cheaper or better.
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With that pair of pigeons, she has eaten enough for two days, the poor old thing.
You get out that old thing called pen and paper and you jot it down.
Largely what we've ended up doing in the 30 years I've been in the organisation is doing the same old thing.
This used to be a good thing until digital disruption came in and made it not so much a bad thing as an old thing.
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But what about that nice old thing the frisson, the suggestion?
Radio's counterpunch is ... the same old thing, only better.
Opposed piston engines are an old new thing.
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It's "the old Jack Benny thing, " Justice Scalia said, invoking the joke where a robber holds up the famously stingy comedian and says, " 'Your money or your life, ' and, you know, he says, 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking, ' " Justice Scalia said.
He was five or six years old when the horrifying thing happened, probably sometime in 1795.
Axa Rosenberg's model involves thousands of multivariate regression calculations, but it all boils down to the same thing that old-fashioned value investors are looking for: an estimate of fair value, which is then compared with current stock prices.
Why am I going on about this now 5 year old, not very important thing?
On the desktop, windows have a flatter, two-dimensional feel, meaning the old transparent bordering is a thing of the past.
Thus the mean old joke that the best thing about Belgium is the ease of travelling elsewhere has been reversed, to the benefit of Belgian private banks.
And even if a bright 13-year-old and a dim 18-year-old are studying the same thing, it may be a bad idea to teach them side by side.
With all the money flowing through the event, the contributions to education, and the plain old fun of the whole thing, it is not hard to see why.
Reliving old habits is the easiest thing.
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In a nod towards old Labour, the first thing New Labour did in power was to abolish the Tories' assisted-places scheme, which enabled brighter pupils from poorer backgrounds to take up state-funded places at the top public schools.
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But now the 81-year-old company is learning a thing or two itself from its new purchase: how to better manage brands like Winnie the Pooh or the new pirate characters that crept out of Disney's successful 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean.
Glowing mice are old hat--the special thing was the way this batch was created.
Maybe he had some trick, like that thing you see in old films, where the spy or whoever sits for hours underwater, breathing through a hollowed stick or a reed.
You know, 26 years old, deejay, doing his thing, trying to get hisself started and get a label started and finds himself caught in a situation where he goes in the total opposite direction, but he finds himself in doing it.
For one month a year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) converts this area into holiday central for NORAD's Santa Tracker, a half-century-old program that has become a thing of legend -- a curious juxtaposition of warfare preparedness and storybook magic.
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The narrative is redolent of the old view that manufacturing is the only thing that really matters.
In my old paperback, Tolkien gets the whole thing done in two hundred and eighty pages, nineteen chapters in all.
Any examination of Mr Vidal's background dispels the old canard that there is no such thing as an American upper class.
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