been there, done that

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.42 in modern English

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"No, I don't wanna go paragliding. Been there, done that. I found it awful."
"Huntsman feints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking."
"He looked down at my résumé. “Wow, you interned at The New Yorker. Did you apply there?” ¶ “Nope.” ¶ He looked up. ¶ I gave the line a tug. ¶ “I just felt like, ‘been there, done that,’ you know? Also, I dated a few guys in the office so it would've been awkward.”"

Ellipsis for "I have been there and have done that".

been there, done that, bought the T-shirt

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