the mixture as before

Nightcaps' depend on how well the day went, but always the mixture as before.

It’s the mixture as before, except that one composite Italian club has replaced another.

It looks very like the mixture as before.

The mixture as before, with enough morbid, bizarre and outrageous variations to keep me interested.

'It's very much the mixture as before but we are always adding new courses and improving the ones we have got,' said manager.

This is not the mixture as before, but a mixture most subtly renewed and stiffened.

Both stories first appeared in book form in the collection The Mixture as Before (1940).

It's the mixture as before, Murmansk again.

Politics: The mixture as before?

Indeed, the selection of ten uncapped players rather obscures the fact that, for the most part, it is the mixture as before, minus the wounded and retired.

The Mixture As Before (2015)

The Mixture as Before, by William Somerset Maugham, 1940

The Mixture as Before - The Saint turns the tables on a scam artist who claims he can make genuine diamonds in his bathtub.

Templar would go up against another would-be alchemist in "The Mixture As Before", a short story in Boodle.

TV critics have generally been impressed by the programme, described in The Independent as "the mixture as before - a bit of pop culture, a bit of sci-fi [and] a bit of weirdness."

Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime - Though Archie Goodwin is here in top form, not much else can be said for this dose of the mixture as before.

What this adds up to is perhaps a sense of coasting - which doesn't bother me at all, but which might strike a critical publisher's reader - unsympathetic I mean rather than acute - as constituting 'the mixture as before'.

In the next two rooms, however, it is the mixture as before: 19th-century copies of earlier paintings or sculptures, real antiques next to bad pastiches, lots of cloisonne and Oriental carpets and the same rather appealing accumulation we have come to expect.

The reviewer from The Times said "All the devices are infinitely sophisticated, and so is the film: the tradition of self-mockery continues, though at times it over-reaches itself", also saying that "It is the mixture as before, only more so: it is superb hokum."

I didn't feel called upon to contribute much, and Mrs. Bellermann never uttered a word except to offer dessert (apfelkuchen, lighter than air and sweeter than revenge) and coffee (the mixture as before but a fresh pot of it, and seemingly richer and darker and stronger and winier this time around).