Category: Slang and Vulgarity
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‘Old Hat’
It's an expression I have often used. To say of something that it is old hat is to say that it is old, or well-known, or passé. Wondering about the origin of this curious phrase, I turned to Robert Hendrickson, Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, 2nd ed. (2004), p. 529. What I found there surprised me:…