To be cast in the same mold; to be monotonous and uninspired; to follow a set pattern without originality or variety.
每次团队会议的报告都千篇一律，让人觉得缺乏新意。
The reports at every team meeting are so monotonous, making people feel they lack originality.
Era:
Ancient
Frequency:
Story:
During the Jin Dynasty, Sikong Zhang Hua frequently imitated the works of Wang Can, a renowned poet from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Zhang Hua's poems often depicted delicate affections, emphasizing ornate diction and rhetorical devices. While he gained some fame at the time, true connoisseurs did not particularly appreciate his work.
Xie Lingyun, a poet from the Southern Dynasties, commented that Zhang Hua's poems were "qian pian yi lü" (a thousand articles, one pattern), meaning they were monotonous and lacked novelty.
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