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serving yesterday's leftovers as if you just invented cooking.
means presenting old ideas, arguments, or content again with minimal change and passing it off as new.
from from hash, the cheap chopped-up meat dish made from reheated scraps; by the 1800s writers borrowed it for recycled prose that tasted the same as the original.
first useattested in english writing by the 1800s
kitchen originliteral hash was leftover meat, re-chopped and refried
academic sinself-plagiarism is basically rehashing your own paper
for instance
sequel reboots — hollywood's 2020s slate leaned hard on remakes of 80s and 90s hits
clickbait listicles — same ten tips recycled across a thousand blogs since 2010
political stump speeches — candidates repeat identical talking points across decades of campaigns