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Meaning: (idiomatic,ironic)Anassertionthat the speaker haspersonalexperienceorknowledgeof a particularplaceortopicand is not too keen on revisiting or redoing it again.No, I don't wanna go paragliding.Been there, done that. I found it awful.2012May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, inThe A.V. Club[1], archived fromthe originalon30 March 2013:Huntsmanfeints at being the Snow White retelling no one has ever seen before, but ultimately becomes the “been there, done that” of fairy-tale filmmaking.2013,Iris Smyles,Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA:Counterpoint,→ISBN, page7:He looked down at my résumé. “Wow, you interned atThe 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.”
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