There is nothing new under the sun

With allusion to ecclesiastes i. 9 (AV) There is no new thing under the sun.

Under the large Cope of heauen, we see not a new thing.
[1592 G. Delamothe French Alphabet ii. 7]

There is no new thing under the sun.
[1664 A. Bradstreet Works (1867) 53]

We can no longer say there is nothing new under the sun.
[1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1904) X. 229]

There is nothing new under the sun; all that, is stale and trite to a septuagenarian, who has seen where it all ends.
[1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xviii.]

Cliché is the element in which political hacks live and move and have our being. Not just situation cliché. There is nothing new under the sun in politics.
[2002 Times 4 Jan. 16]

Related to: familiarity; novelty

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