A significant change introduced to an entrenched system or method.
A new thing passed off as old.
Origin
From Matthew 9:17 of the King James Bible. "Neither do men put new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runeth out, and the bottles perish; but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved."
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