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老生常谈

lǎo shēng cháng tán

4-character word Traditional 老生常談

What 老生常谈 means

1. an old observation (idiom)
2. a truism
3. banal comments

The characters in 老生常谈

• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 常chángalways; ever; often
• 谈tánto speak; to talk; to converse

Example sentences

• 今天的激进也许是明天的老生常谈。
  Jīntiān de jījìn yěxǔ shì míngtiān de lǎoshēngchángtán.
  What's radical today may be cliché tomorrow.