0 very old and familiar and therefore not interesting or funny:
No one would argue with the shaping force of ' culturally traditional ' transmission, though the individuating role of the griot, griotte or karisi is a hoary subject in oral literary debates.
We heard the hoary old arguments about jacking up prices and cutting public expenditure.
They have trotted out the same hoary old studies on minimum wages.
Then we have had the hoary story about the waste of public money.
I shall deal with those two hoary, old, ornithological squawks once and for all.
I turn to the hoary chestnut of foreign competition.
I have been told that this question is a hoary annual.
My second reason for having some misgivings is the hoary old matter called "consultation".