The fact is the public wants to hear those old chestnuts.

So much for that old chestnut about teachers having their summers off.

Mostly it was that good old chestnut - missing morning parade.

Thus James lays to rest the old chestnut "write what you know."

I should have known she'd bring up that old chestnut.

But this argument is now an old chestnut in strategic thinking.

So you can excuse theater companies for trying to come up with new takes on this old chestnut, just to keep things interesting.

The second point that I consider important is the old chestnut of the 'brain drain'.

It's an old chestnut that war is good for the economy.

They tried to slip that old chestnut by every year.