Old lyre

The expression old lyre , also the same lyre or the same lyre , colloquially describes a long-known expression or information that has been repeated many times.

The phrase goes back to the traditional stringed instrument, the lyre , which, due to its few strings, has only a small range of tone and articulation and was mostly tuned to a fixed pitch. In this idiom, it stands as a picture for the constant repetition and monotony that bores fellow human beings or even annoys them.