vieux jeu

English

Etymology

From French vieux jeu.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /vjəˈʒə/

Adjective

vieux jeu (comparative more vieux jeu, superlative most vieux jeu)

  1. Old-fashioned, outmoded.
    • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 358:
      If she was to leave Douglas, for what way of living was she to leave? There's something so damned vieux jeu, she thought gloomily, in leaving like Nora, to live differently!

Dutch

Etymology

From French

Noun

vieux jeu n (uncountable)

  1. something unoriginal, same old story

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vjø ʒø/

Noun

vieux jeu (invariable)

  1. old-fashioned (of persons, manners)
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