会议上，还是那些老面孔在讨论同样老掉牙的问题。

At the meeting, it was just ___the ___same ___old faces discussing the same old issues.

那位政客只是重复了我们听了多年的那些老掉牙的论点。

The politician simply trotted out ___the ___same ___old arguments we've heard for years.

他又迟到了——还是老一套，用交通堵塞这种惯用的借口。

He was late again - ___the ___same ___old story, with the usual excuses about traffic.