retread an old plot. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a boring retread of a classic movie. From Dictionary.com.
I had to go all the way to 16th place, interrobang, to find something that wasn't a retread from the hot 100. From Wordnik.com. [What I Did On My Summer Vacation] Reference
(Or just go all the way in and have everybody be a retread from a previous season. From Wordnik.com. ['The Bachelor': Should it be Kiptyn, Reid, or Jake? | EW.com] Reference
A sequel is not supposed to be a re-hash; it only becomes a "retread" if the treatment is bad. From Wordnik.com. [Exclusive: Screenwriter Travis Wright Responds to Blade Runner 2 Story | /Film] Reference
How is he a "retread" It seems you know little about Hesse. From Wordnik.com. [Seeking Alpha Wireless stocks] Reference
So, in that respect, it's not a retread situation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2008] Reference
It is advisable to turn it over with hoes and retread it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The storyline was a boring retread: WMD had been recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Barry Michael Cooper: Kenneth Coles & Grassy Knolls: The Sole Assasination of a Bush Legacy] Reference
He traveled far and wide, so much so that he needed a retread. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo] Reference
I have two simple responses, each a retread of a rejection th. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Jaffe: Free Visa -- and MasterCard, Too] Reference
Counting Crows 'rootsy retread "" Recovering the Satellites' 'plummeted. From Wordnik.com. [Duds, Flops And Bombs: What Failed In '96, And Wh] Reference
Is it really a new chapter or is it just a retread of some old chapters?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2002] Reference
Brown, the retread, developed some of the season's freshest campaign ideas. From Wordnik.com. [SIX MEN AND A DONKEY] Reference
They found Hazel O'Leary, a Carter retread and Minnesota utility executive. From Wordnik.com. [Warm-Up Lessons] Reference
HillIckes 'campaign was a 1974 AMC Gremlin with retread tires and mucho bondo. From Wordnik.com. [Study: Obama Dramatically Outspent Hillary On TV Ads During Campaign] Reference
Another retread: from August 1999 edition of Pulse! magazine (ie Tower Records). From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
ROZEN: Sandra Bullock is back and basically a retread of the plot of the first one. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2005] Reference
In fact, all of "Welcome to New York" feels like a retread version of "Murphy Brown.". From Wordnik.com. [Sidekicks No More: The Triumph Of The Costars] Reference
Democrats are blasting John McCain's energy plan as a retread of President Bush's policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008] Reference
Throw in a retread for the EMOLBLOG, OR PART IV OF BLINVERTED, and that's four outta five. From Wordnik.com. [jfloydking Diary Entry] Reference
They're down in numbers, and those retread freighters seem about as fast as anything here. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
What can they do as far as being a retread, in other words, being retrained to find other things?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2009] Reference
Amy Adams - love her but Leap Year looks like a retread of the bad Hilary Swank film PS I Love You. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Silverstein: Women, Hollywood and Money] Reference
This morning now, investigators are looking into the possibility of that illegal retread on that tire. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
The breakthrough making the most noise is actually a retread of an innovation that failed a generation ago. From Wordnik.com. [Autos: Going the Extra Mileage] Reference
Freedom is, at best, as good as The Corrections (which is to say, fantastic), but it also feels like a retread. From Wordnik.com. [The Man We Knew Too Much] Reference
This morning investigators are now looking into the possibility an illegal retread tire blew causing that fatal accident. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
Democrats quickly branded the yet-to-be-finalized agenda a retread of the policies that led to the current economic turmoil. From Wordnik.com. ['Contract With America': House GOP To Unveil Election-Year Agenda This Week] Reference
HOLMES: Fifteen people dead in a bus accident in Texas, an accident that may have been called by illegal retread on that bus. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
Lee pulled out all the stops, thanks to horns and backup singers ... and he never seemed more like a retread of Taylor Hicks. From Wordnik.com. [Idol Season 9: Top 11 -- Paige Making Top 10? Only Against All Odds] Reference
Federal investigators now saying that bus was not licensed and the tire that blew causing the accident was an illegal retread. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
The tirelessly inane E! network has had big success marketing retread sitcoms like "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "One Day at a Time.". From Wordnik.com. [Retro-Tubing: All Oldies, All The Time] Reference
It isn't clear yet what he can do with his retread quarterbacks, but Washington will air it out and let the balls fall where they may. From Wordnik.com. [Enough With The Strike Already] Reference
Every concert is sold out; the crowds listen closely to the music, which ranges from retro retread to outbursts of appealing exuberance. From Wordnik.com. [Woody And All That Jazz] Reference
Isn't this the same slogan, basically, I mean, sort of a retread of the compassionate (UNINTELLIGIBLE) conservatism we heard about in 2000?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2004] Reference
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