老生常談

1. • an old observation (idiom)
2. • a truism
3. • banal comments

Character by character

• 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
• 生(shēng)grow
• 常(cháng)surname Chang
• 談(tán)surname Tan