老生常谈

lǎo shēng cháng tán

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Definitions

1. a truism
2. banal comments

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Child Words of 老生常谈

• 常 常 cháng: always
• 生 生 shēng: to be born
• 谈 谈 tán: to speak
• 老生 老生 lǎo shēng: venerable middle-aged or elderly man, usually wearing an artificial beard (in Chinese opera)
• 老 老 lǎo: prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity