NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN Definition & Meaning

nothing new under the sun

A phrase adapted from the Book of Ecclesiastes ; the author complains frequently in the book about the monotony of life. The entire passage reads, “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

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Idioms and Phrases

Everything has been seen before, as in Those designs take me back to the 1950s—there really is nothing new under the sun . This world-weary view was already expressed in 1382 in the Bible translation attributed to John Wycliffe's followers: “No thing under the sun is new” (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

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There’s nothing new under the sun, but the best and only thing you can truly offer is your authentic self.

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No new rules are needed, because to cite Ecclesiastes: When it comes to financial crime, as in all things, “there is nothing new under the sun.”

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I also stumbled upon some intermittent fasting studies from the 1960s and 1970s, confirming that there really is nothing new under the sun when it comes to dieting — and if any of these diets worked they wouldn’t intermittently fall out of favor.

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Conveying a poignantly Butlerian mix of pragmatism and hope on a cosmic scale, it reads, “There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns.”

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To begin with, there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to laundering wrongdoing through conspicuous displays of spiritual piety or good works.

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