| There is that old chestnut about people having to decide they want this guy to be in their TV rooms for the next four years. |
| Some tenants had asked for an old chestnut paling fence that once surrounded the gardens to be replaced. |
| His workplace relations minister begrudges a modest pay rise for the lowly paid, trotting out the hoary old chestnut that better pay costs jobs. |
| Sprouts in old chestnut clearings are often allowed to remain, and sometimes they are grafted to the improved varieties. |
| On the other hand, we get the old chestnut of the renegade bandit who preys on travelers, except in this case, he's presented as a sadistic brute. |
| In the past she has denied the old chestnut about women not being as funny as men but today she clearly can't be bothered fighting. |
