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Old-hat   /oʊld-hæt/   Listen
Old-hat

adjective
1.
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.  Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn.  "His remarks were trite and commonplace" , "Hackneyed phrases" , "A stock answer" , "Repeating threadbare jokes" , "Parroting some timeworn axiom" , "The trite metaphor 'hard as nails'"
2.
Out of fashion.  Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, outmoded, passe, passee.  "Demode (or outmoded) attire" , "Outmoded ideas"






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