old wine in a new bottle
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old wine in a new bottle (uncountable)
- An existing concept or institution offered as though it were a new one.
- 2003, Stephen M Colarelli, No Best Way
- Finally, some critics argue that evolutionary psychology is old wine in a new bottle — the old instinct theory in a new package.
- 2003, Stephen M Colarelli, No Best Way
