old line
老本行,老行当,老行,老字号
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- : following or supporting conservative or traditional ideas, beliefs, customs, etc.
- : long established; traditional: old-line society.
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So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.