warmed-over

[ wawrmd-oh-ver ]

/ ˈwɔrmdˈoʊ vər /

(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.

Words nearby warmed-over

First recorded in 1885–90

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
She still had hopes of a financier who would carry her off in a storm of warmed-over romance to a castle in Kansas.
The Gorgeous Girl|Nalbro Bartley
Hetty was dishing out fragrant, warmed-over stew into three lunch dishes on the table.
Make Mine Homogenized|Rick Raphael

Flapjacks and bacon and warmed-over beans constituted his supper.
Moon-Face and Other Stories|Jack London
What of Richard Strauss, with his warmed-over Nietzscheism, his flair for the merely horrible?
A Book of Prefaces|H. L. Mencken
She's a nice little thing, and deserves something better than a warmed-over heart.
More Tish|Mary Roberts Rinehart