Old chestnuts


Synonyms for old chestnuts
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
old chestnut
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 chestnut
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 chestnut
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 chestnut
old story
prosaicism
trite remark

Antonyms

nuance

coinage

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