No, instead Bergevin played the most well-worn card in a modern-day GM's deck: Bravely vowing not to make a "panic move".
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Yet even as Trump sought to play down his hyper-incendiary tone, he still held fast to several of his most well-worn, and false, claims.
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If lawmakers want to ensure that a judge will recognize what they are doing as impeachment, it would be better to follow the most well-worn path.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Sell in May and go away," arguably the most well-worn axiom on Wall Street, has proven to be shrewd advice during previous midterm election years.
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These musicians have been together for three times that long, and even when playing some of their most well-worn material, they manage to embody a blend of comfort and restless ingenuity.
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While Bloomberg is forcing other Democrats to talk about something new, Sanders is being asked to defend one of the most well-worn topics in this race: whether his supporters are too mean.
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It's one of the most well-worn romantic conceits out there, in which circumstances conspire to lead two people to pretend to be in a relationship together, only to inevitably fall in love during the course of their subterfuge.
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That's partly true, but as the interview wound down and he finished marveling at Neil Armstrong's moon computer, Harbaugh launched into the most well worn of football tropes, hitting all the bullet points there: football is important and its future is bright because high school football turns boys into men, saving single mothers and the country in the process, all points he has previously made in his "Why Football Matters" open letter.
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Tolkien does not accept the etymological fallacy either: mod means 'pride', not 'mood'; burg is 'stronghold', not 'borough', even though the modern word derives from the old one. Some terms present special problems; the Beowulf poet uses at least ten synonyms for the word 'man', from wer (as in werewolf, a man-wolf) and beorn to leod and mann; Tolkien writes that in heroic verse there were over 25 terms that could at a stretch be used to mean 'man', including words like eorl (a nobleman, like 'earl'); cniht (a young man, like 'knight'); ðegn (a servant, like 'thain'); or wiga (a warrior). He argues that the translator need not avoid words from the Middle Ages that might suggest the age of chivalry: better the world of King Arthur than "Red Indians", and in the case of words for armour and weapons, there is no choice. In the case of compound words, Tolkien observes that the translator has to Tolkien concludes the section by warning the translator that even the most well-worn kennings had not lost their meaning and connotations.
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