Idiom
have seen this movie
Meaning
To have experienced a situation which is the same as or similar to the current situation, especially with a sense of the unpleasantness or tiresomeness of the recurring situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I have seen this movie before, so I know how it ends.”
“When the manager started making the same empty promises again, I sighed because I have seen this movie many times.”
“As the political negotiations stalled for the third time this month, the veteran diplomat remarked that he had seen this movie far too often to remain optimistic.”
Examples
simple
“I have seen this movie before, so I know how it ends.”
contextual
“When the manager started making the same empty promises again, I sighed because I have seen this movie many times.”
complex
“As the political negotiations stalled for the third time this month, the veteran diplomat remarked that he had seen this movie far too often to remain optimistic.”
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