it's the same old story

also it's an old story

this bad situation has happened many times before It's the same old story - the women do all the work and the men just sit around talking.

Related vocabulary: the same old same old

It's the same old story.

something that you say when a bad situation has happened many times before It's the same old story - the women do all the work and the men just sit around talking.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sirpa	SEER-pah	Finnish
Leonore	le-o-NO-rə	German
BarnabÉ	-	French
Tariro	-	Southern African, Shona
Kveta	-	Czech
Fadl	-	Arabic