Old chestnut

Synonyms for old chestnut
noun interesting or amusing story

sketch
episode
short story
narration
reminiscence

yarn
tale
tall tale
narrative
gag

incident
relation
recital
fairy tale
fish story

chestnut
long and short of it
tall story

Synonyms
noun common saying

platitude
plate
trivia
truism
triviality

adage
buzzword
saw
cliché
dullsville

chestnut
corn
hokum
boiler
familiar tune

high camp
old saw
prosaicism
prosaism
trite phrase

Antonyms

nuance

coinage

original saying

Synonyms
noun fantasy, story

parable
myth
yarn
fiction
tale
fantasy
legend
hogwash

lie
falsehood
invention
crock
romance
apologue
whopper
fib

figment
untruth
allegory
fabrication
bunk
fairy tale
fish story
white lie

bestiary
fairy story
old saw
one for the birds
tall story

Antonyms

non-fiction

truth

sense

Synonyms
noun dull, overused saying

banality
bromide
stereotype
tag
flatness
shibboleth
saw
truism

triviality
evenness
vapidity
buzzword
commonplace
monotony
proverb
motto

verbiage
inanity
insipidity
cliché
triteness
hokum
chestnut
corn

potboiler
boiler plate
familiar tune
hackneyed saying
high camp
old story
prosaicism
trite remark

Antonyms

nuance

coinage

Synonyms
adj clichéd, tired

timeworn
corny
trite
banal
stale
threadbare
antiquated
common
commonplace

conventional
everyday
hokey
moth-eaten
obsolete
old
out-of-date
outdated
outmoded

overworked
pedestrian
quotidian
run-of-the-mill
stereotyped
stock
tripe
unoriginal
worn-out

well-worn
familiar tune
old-chestnut
old-hat
old-saw
played-out

Antonyms

fresh
new

original
uncommon