老调子

The so-called "friendship first, competition second" and so on are outdated old tunes. Otherwise, we could have given up the Olympic title to someone else.

Mother often said: "a dress new three years, old three years, stitches and three years." "But this old tune is really unreasonable, people grow up, how to wear clothes when they were young?"

The handout he wrote ten years ago is still in use, so in class he can only sing old tunes and say old things.