warmed-over

[ wawrmd-oh-ver ]

/ ˈwɔrmdˈoʊ vər /

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adjective

(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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Origin of warmed-over

First recorded in 1885–90

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|DAILY BEAST
Boehner 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|DAILY BEAST
Some conservatives are content to sit on the sidelines and decry the Obama approach as so much warmed-over socialism.
How Republicans Can Steal Health Care|Reihan Salam|June 9, 2009|DAILY BEAST
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 Harland

It 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. Snell
Like Ben Hur, it was warmed over into a tremendously successful melodrama, and received the final compliment of parody.
Essays on Modern Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
The principal food of the party was tallow and some other substance, which was warmed over a fire on stopping at night.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887|Various

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