warmed-over
(of cooked foods) heated again: warmed-over stew.
reworked or repeated without enthusiasm or introduction of new ideas; stale: a warmed-over version of an old show.
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How to use warmed-over in a sentence
Some of her calls for activism read as warmed-over tracts from decades ago.
Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ Will Change Nothing | Michael Signer | November 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBoehner has brewed a warmed-over Mitt Romney plan while omitting the noxious idea of voucherizing Medicare.
Robert Shrum: Obama Won Election & Will Win Again on Fiscal Cliff | Robert Shrum | December 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSome conservatives are content to sit on the sidelines and decry the Obama approach as so much warmed-over socialism.
warmed-over dinners are good enough in their place, but when we pay the same price, we have a right to be dainty.
Alone | Marion HarlandIt is difficult to use up corned beef, for it is not good sliced and warmed over, as most meats are.
Living on a Little | Caroline French Benton
Having breakfasted heartily on sourdough flapjacks, warmed-over baked beans and coffee, they were ready for anything.
On the Yukon Trail | Roy J. SnellLike Ben Hur, it was warmed over into a tremendously successful melodrama, and received the final compliment of parody.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsThe principal food of the party was tallow and some other substance, which was warmed over a fire on stopping at night.
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