THE (SAME) OLD STORY

Meaning of THE (SAME) OLD STORY in English

what usually happens :

It's the same old story of a badly managed project with inadequate funding.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

THE SAME OLD STORY — a bad situation that is tediously familiar. → story
Concise Oxford English vocab
THE SAME OLD STORY! — Песня
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
STORY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) detective story horror story mystery story short story {{link=Story Joseph">Story Joseph
Английский словарь Британика
OLD — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Old English script Old Ironsides Haakon the Old James Edward the Old Pretender Old …
Английский словарь Британика
STORY — I. ˈstōrē, ˈstȯrē, -ri noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English storie, from Old French estorie, estoire, from Latin historia …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAME — I. ˈsām adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse samr, sami; akin to Old English ( swā ) same likewise, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OLD — I. ˈōld, before a consonant often ˈōl adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English ald, old, from Old English eald, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
STORY — story 1 — storyless , adj. /stawr"ee, stohr"ee/ , n. , pl. stories , v. , storied, storying . n. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAME — /saym/ , adj. 1. identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OLD — — oldness , n. /ohld/ , adj., older, oldest or elder, eldest , n. adj. 1. far advanced in the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAME — I. ˈsām adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse samr; akin to Old High German sama same, Latin simulis like, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
OLD — I. ˈōld; for sense 9 usually ˈōl adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English eald; akin to Old High German …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
STORY — noun a euphemism or child's word for "a lie;" a fib; as, to tell a story. 2. story ·vt to …
Webster English vocab
OLD
Webster English vocab
STORY — [sto.ry] n, pl stories [ME storie, fr. OF estorie, fr. L historia--more at history] (13c) 1 archaic: history 1, 3 …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SAME — [same] adj [ME, fr. ON samr; akin to OHG sama same, L simulis like, simul together, at the same time, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
OLD — [old] adj [ME, fr. OE eald; akin to OHG alt old, L alere to nourish, alescere to grow, altus high, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
OLD — old BrE AmE əʊld ⇨ɒʊld AmE oʊld ▷ older ˈəʊld ə ⇨ˈɒʊld- AmE ˈoʊld ə r ▷ oldest ˈəʊld ɪst …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
STORY
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAME — / seɪm; NAmE / adjective , pronoun , adverb ■ adjective 1. exactly the one or ones referred to or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OLD — / əʊld; NAmE oʊld/ adjective ( old·er , old·est ) AGE 1. be ... years, months, etc. ~ of a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STORY
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SAME — I. same 1 S1 W1 /seɪm/ BrE AmE adjective [only before noun] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old Norse ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OLD
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
STORY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 an account of imaginary or past events; a narrative, tale, or anecdote. 2 the past course …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SAME — adj., pron., & adv. --adj. 1 (often prec. by the) identical; not different; unchanged (everyone was looking in the same …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OLD — adj. (older, oldest) (cf. ELDER, ELDEST). 1 a advanced in age; far on in the natural period of existence. b …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
STORY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 an account of imaginary or past events; a narrative, tale, or anecdote. 2 the past course …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SAME — adj., pron., & adv. adj. 1 (often prec. by the) identical; not different; unchanged (everyone was looking in the same …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OLD — adj. (older, oldest) (cf. ELDER, ELDEST). 1 a advanced in age; far on in the natural period of existence. b …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
STORY — 1. n. (pl. -ies) 1. an account of imaginary or past events; a narrative, tale, or anecdote. 2 the past …
Oxford English vocab
SAME — adj., pron., & adv. --adj. 1. (often prec. by the) identical; not different; unchanged (everyone was looking in the same …
Oxford English vocab
OLD — adj. (older, oldest) (cf. ELDER, ELDEST). 1. a advanced in age; far on in the natural period of existence. b …
Oxford English vocab
STORY
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAME — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If two or more things, actions, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OLD — ( older, oldest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Someone who is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
STORY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SAME — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES along the same lines (= in the same way ) ▪ We were both thinking …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
OLD
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
STORY — (DESCRIPTION) [noun] [C] - a description, either true or imagined, of a connected series of events and, often, the characters …
Cambridge English vocab
SAME — (NOT ANOTHER) [adjective] [before noun; not gradable] - not another different oneMy brother and I sleep in the same room.Our …
Cambridge English vocab
OLD — (FROM THE PAST) [adjective] [before noun] -er, -est - from a period in the past; former (EARLIER)I saw my old …
Cambridge English vocab
OLD — n. Old Museum of Painting Old English script Old Ironsides Haakon the Old James Edward the Old Pretender Old Believers …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
STORY
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SAME — Synonyms and related words : Doppelganger, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, actual thing, aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, alike, all one, all the same, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OLD
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SAME — See: AT THE SAME TIME, ALL THE SAME, or JUST THE SAME, IN THE SAME BREATH, LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE …
Slang English vocab
SAME — adj. Function: adjective 1 being one rather than another or more FF1C; went to the same hotel each summer FF1E; …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
OLD — n. age old old age old fashioned Old Gooseberry Old Guard old hand old hat old lady old line old …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
STORY — See ↑ NEWS 3, ↑ STORY 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ (a) likely story • ↑ funny story • ↑ hard-luck …
Longman Activator English vocab
STORY
Longman Activator English vocab
SAME — INDEX: 1. the same one 2. exactly like someone or something 3. the same in amount or number 4. the …
Longman Activator English vocab
SAME — • ↑ be the same • ↑ it makes no difference to me/it doesn't bother me/it's all the same to …
Longman Activator English vocab
OLD — INDEX: not young 1. not young 2. older than someone else 3. too old to do something 4. to become …
Longman Activator English vocab
STORY — n. 25B6; noun an adventure story : TALE, narrative, account, anecdote; informal yarn, spiel. See list. the novel has a …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SAME — adj. 25B6; adjective we stayed at the same hotel : IDENTICAL, selfsame, very same, one and the same. they had …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
OLD — n. 25B6; adjective old people : ELDERLY, aged, older, senior, advanced in years, venerable; in one's dotage, long in the …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
STORY — n. 1 narrative, tale, recounting, anecdote, yarn; account, recital, chronicle, record, history; legend, myth, fairy tale or story, romance, gest …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SAME — adj. 1 identical, exact (same), selfsame; very When I said they were wearing the same dress I meant that they …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SAME — See: AT THE SAME TIME, ALL THE SAME, or JUST THE SAME, IN THE SAME BREATH, LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE …
Словарь английских идиом
SAME — I adverb BAD : I'd like to visit Vietnam and Malaysia one day, as same as you. GOOD : I'd …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
OLD — adjective 1 BAD : He is married to a twenty years old American girl. GOOD : He is married to …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
STORY
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SAME
Большой Англо-Русский словарь

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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