When a picture got in trouble, the old refrain went, "Send in the boys!"
"One of the things you may do is fall in love," he said, but that was as close as he got to the old refrain.
That old refrain now has real meaning for Long Islanders.
Since the 1980s it's been an old refrain from those who need political cover for cutting services and making redundancies.
The Giants may actually try to fix that, although that is an old refrain.
Suddenly, he repeated his old refrain: "I never had a critic in my corner in this country."
An old refrain echoed in the dim recesses of his mind.
You end with an old refrain: "a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else."
The rapporteur is repeating his old refrain with new words.
This sounds like the old refrain: city and state officials continue to fiddle while our vital transportation system burns.