go stale
Frequency: 8.015.3 per million words
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Examples (10)
- This bread's going stale.
- If you leave the cookies out, they'll go stale quickly.
- Their relationship started to go stale after years of routine.
- My creative ideas often go stale if I don't act on them.
- The biscuits have gone stale; we should throw them away.
- Don't let your skills go stale; keep practicing.
- The project team felt their enthusiasm going stale due to lack of progress.
- His jokes used to be funny, but now they've gone stale.
- To prevent the conversation from going stale, introduce new topics.
- The old routine had gone completely stale, so they sought change.