vieux jeu
English
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[edit]vieux jeu (comparative more vieux jeu, superlative most vieux jeu)
- Old-fashioned, outmoded.
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 358:
- If she was to leave Douglas, for what way of living was she to leave? There's something so damned vieux jeu, she thought gloomily, in leaving like Nora, to live differently!
Dutch
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[edit]vieux jeu n (uncountable)
- something unoriginal, same old story
French
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[edit]- old-fashioned (of persons, manners)
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