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old school tie
[f. old a. + school n.1 1 + tie n. 4.]
A tie of characteristic pattern worn by former members of a particular school, esp. an English public school; used transf. and fig. to denote the wearer of such a tie and the behaviour and attitudes usually associated with it, esp. conservatism and group loyalty. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence old school ˈtieism.
1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 86, I was thinking over the moral significance of Old School ties and the British social fabric. 1936S. Smith Novel on Yellow Paper 140 Cynthia was..an old-school-tie acquaintance of mine. 1939G. Household Rogue Male 40 The only class-conscious people are..the suburban old-school-tie brigade and their wives. 1942A. Christie Body in Library iii. 35 The Inspector was tacitly accusing him of favouring his own class—of shielding an ‘old school tie’. 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday ix. 58 Now this Old School Tie stuff..is only a protest against inefficiency and nothing else. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Pol. What's What? i. 4 To the Old School Ties the dictators seem ignorant uneducated rebels. 1949R. Chandler Let. 13 May in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 139, I don't want to be revoltingly old-school-tie, but it does seem to me that a line has to be drawn. 1957Numbers Mar. 17, I just met an old school-tie in the cloakroom. 1958S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xi. 54 He was an Etonian..and he made his jokes unsmilingly as a concession to the old school tie convention. 1960T. Hughes Lupercal 45 As soon Let the old school tie be rent Off their necks. 1965Listener 22 July 125/1 One thing I have learned is to distrust a lot of the familiar chat about old school ties. 1969Ibid. 9 Jan. 41/1 He wore an old-school tie and an air of off-hand insolence which he thought of as easy and confident. 1973‘S. Harvester’ Corner of Playground i. v. 55 Their being boys from adjoining villages, the African version of old school tieism. |