I will be happy if... I still hear this old chestnut.

如果……我就会感到快乐直到现在我仍然能听到这句老话。

youdao

Lincoln's sigh, quoted above, is a bit of an old chestnut.

在上文中引用的林肯的叹息有点老生常谈。

youdao

It's that old chestnut: life imitating art, or art imitating life?

还是那个老话题：是生活模仿艺术，还是艺术模仿生活？

youdao

Whenever the England national team plays poorly, the old chestnut of an inability to maintain possession is aired once again.

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He repeats the old chestnut about how buying and holding lets you take advantage of huge upward moves that can't be forecast.

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Could we have a euro equivalent of the West Lothian question - the old chestnut about Scottish MPs getting to vote on English affairs?

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