What does twice-told mean?
Twice-told means hackneyed; cliché.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
hackneyed; cliché.
a twice-told tale
[…] the fact that repetition makes for dullness and that a fresh mind may well be able to introduce a new and hence a more effective approach to what has become rather more than a twice-told tale.
I am aware that the story of “the story within the story” is itself a twice-told tale, but nonetheless I will tell it again, hoping to make it yield some additional meaning—if my initial contention is right.
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Twice-told means hackneyed; cliché.
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a twice-told tale
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