[lǎo shēng cháng tán]
a commonplace talk of an old scholar; a standing dish; be a mere platitude; cut and dried [dry]; home truth; (This) is mere senile gossip.; platitudes; stale news; Sunday-school truth; trite remarks; truism
cut-and-dried speech
老生常談的演講
The talk is no more than a platitude.
這番話無非是老生常談。