to retread one's ideas
- phrasal verb
:
repetir ideas
- Instead of proposing fresh solutions, she kept retreading her ideas from previous presentations.
Examples
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Writers are often criticized when they retread their ideas instead of exploring new themes.
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Every year, the politician would retread his ideas in campaign speeches without offering anything new.
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Every year, the politician would retread his ideas in campaign speeches without offering anything new.
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Instead of proposing fresh solutions, she kept retreading her ideas from previous presentations.
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Writers are often criticized when they retread their ideas instead of exploring new themes.
Synonyms
102
4.5
To make a thing again so it looks like the original
72
3.7
To return to an idea or topic to think about it again
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3.0
Say the same thing again, often in a way that annoys people
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6.4
To present old ideas again with only small changes
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7.7
To repeat facts from memory without understanding or new ideas
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7.2
To present an old idea again with small changes
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8.6
To repeat the main theme near the end of a piece
To repeat old ideas and present them with little new content
To use an idea or argument again to make it seem stronger
Make something again so it looks like the original
Use a method, idea, or device again
To repeat an earlier theme in music or writing
Antonyms
How Original
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'retread' (to reuse or rework) + 'one's ideas' (the ideas belonging to someone): together they straightforwardly mean to reuse or repeat one's own ideas. The possessive simply marks whose ideas and there is no idiomatic shift or metaphor that changes the lexical meanings, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Retread one's ideas comes from car tires. To retread a tire means to put a new layer of rubber on an old tire, so when people retread their ideas they are simply 'reusing' old thoughts instead of offering something new.