Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of cooked food English) reheated 2 (context by extension English) clichéd, overused or stale
WordNet
adj. uneaten and saved for eating later; "leftover food served at a later meal"; "yesterday's reheated soup" [syn: leftover, cooked-over, reheated]
Usage examples of "warmed-over".
What of Richard Strauss, with his warmed-over Nietzscheism, his flair for the merely horrible?
An evening with John over the account books usually produced a temporary lull in the culinary enthusiasm, and a frugal fit would ensue, during which the poor man was put through a course of bread pudding, hash, and warmed-over coffee, which tried his soul, although he bore it with praiseworthy fortitude.
The three of them sat on the plastic-covered, foamrubber cushioned chairs about an enamel topped table covered with a red-and-white checked cloth and helped themselves from a steaming dish of boiled collard greens, okra, and pigs feet, a warmed-over bowl of black-eyed peas and a platter of cornbread.
Bruce Sterling's ideas about science fiction fascinated me greatly, if only because he was the one person I could hear talking about science fiction in terms that weren't either warmed-over James Blish and Damon Knight or stolen from the mouldering corpse of Modernism that still stinks to high heaven in the English departments of American universities.