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Rpsh Posted 13 years ago
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chestnut
If you have ever read the book named <the lord of the ring>, you should remember the scene that Gollum and Bilbo guess the riddle which is given by each other. Tolkien always say a word "chestnut", e.g. "This he thought a dreadfully easy chestnut, though he had not asked it in the usual words." So, is it a idiom? Would riddle and chestnut be two words with the same meaning?
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rpsh So, is it a idiom? Yes. com/browse/old%20chestnut A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb.
- rpsh So, is it a idiom?
- Yes.
- com/browse/old%20chestnut A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb.
- This expression comes from William Dimond's play, The Broken Sword (1816), in which one character keeps repeating the same stories, one of them about a cork tree, and is interrupted each time by another character who says "Chestnut, you mean .
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rpshSo, is it a idiom?Yes.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/old%20chestnut
A stale joke, story, or saying, as in Dad keeps on telling that old chestnut about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb.
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