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vieux jeu

/ vjø ʒø /

adjective

  1. old-fashioned
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of vieux jeu1

literally: old game
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No amount of aesthetic top-dressing can disguise the fact that this paradigm is played out, and that the sentimental manipulation of women by men is starting to look very vieux jeu.

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That’s a large part of its appeal to theatergoers for whom being hip means knowing that you’re not hip, that the whole notion of hipness is so vieux jeu.

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In English, at least, this all seems a tad vieux jeu.

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In "Dorian Gray," Wilde gives free play to his ever-present longing to utter the dernier cri, to avoid all that was vieux jeu, and to fill with horror and amazement the souls of the stodgy bourgeoisie.

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The clerical effort was by no means vieux jeu.

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