OLD SONG

Definition: OLD SONG

OLD SONG

1. A trifle; nothing of value. ``I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.'' --Dr. H. More.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cheapness

Buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song; have one's money's worth.

Repetition

Twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion; periodicity.

Crosswords: OLD SONG

There's an old song that says: One white foot buy 'em, two white feet try 'em, three white feet be on the sly, four white feet pass 'em by. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts)

I hear her playing that same old song (Bad Day; performing artist: Fuel)

Singin' the same old song (Rhinestone Cowboy; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Larry Weiss)

And the newsman sang his same old song (Radar Love; performing artist: Golden Earring)

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea (Dust in the Wind; performing artist: KANSAS)

It's like a sweet, sad old song (Can We Still Be Friends; performing artist: Todd Rundgren)

It's The Same Old Song (performing artist: The Four Tops)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song (Dell Picture Yearling) (reference)

• Newly Discovered Long Story, and Old Song and a Previously Unpublished Short Story, Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family (reference)

• Disney's the Little Mermaid: Four Novels: Green-Eyed Pearl/Nefazia Visits the Palace/Reflections of Arsulu/the Same Old Song (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "OLD SONG": buy for an old song. Additional references.

Hungarian

potom pénzért (for a song, for an old song), bagóért (for a song, for an old song). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

古歌 (old poem). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふるうた (old poem), �"か (old poem, solidification). (various references)

Pig Latin

olday ongsay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: godson.

-2 letters: dongs, golds, goods, goons, logos, longs, loons, nolos, snood, snool, soldo, solon.

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-4 letters: dog, dol, don, dos, god, goo, gos, log, loo, nod, nog, noo, nos, ods.

+1 letter: dongolas, gondolas.

+2 letters: bloodings, golcondas, goldstone.

+3 letters: goldenrods, goldstones, gondoliers, mongoloids, stronghold.

+4 letters: boondoggles, discoloring, outscolding, strongholds.

+5 letters: bloodsucking, boondogglers, demonologies, demonologist, dendrologies, dendrologist, deontologies, deontologist, endogenously, hornswoggled, roadholdings.