单词 | old school tie |
释义 | old school tien.adj. Chiefly British. A. n. A tie with a characteristic pattern indicating that the wearer is a former pupil of a particular school, esp. a British public school. In extended use: a person who wears such a tie, or who exhibits behaviour and attitudes regarded as associated with it, esp. conservatism and group loyalty. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > opponent of change Tory1712 old school1749 conservatist1831 conservative1832 fossil1844 mossback1873 stand-patter1902 old school tie1920 passéist1921 pastist1921 auntie1953 old schooler1964 Luddite1970 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > opponent of change > symbol of old school tie1920 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > fidelity or loyalty > [noun] > to clan, fraternity, tribe, etc. clanship1809 clansmanship1871 clan-spirit1883 old school tie1920 tribalism1955 1920 Times 28 May 15/4 If we see a rag and bone man wearing our old school tie,..we feel disposed to confound the fellow's impudence. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 86 I was thinking over the moral significance of Old School ties and the British social fabric. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier x. 197 Easy to laugh at..the Old School Tie and Colonel Blimp. 1942 A. Christie Body in Libr. iii. 35 The Inspector was tacitly accusing him of favouring his own class—of shielding an ‘old school tie’. 1944 G. B. Shaw Everybody's Polit. What's What? i. 4 To the Old School Ties the dictators seem ignorant uneducated rebels. 1957 Numbers Mar. 17 I just met an old school-tie in the cloakroom. 1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 45 As soon Let the old school tie be rent Off their necks. 1969 Listener 9 Jan. 41/1 He wore an old-school tie and an air of off-hand insolence. 1993 Liberty Aug. 16/1 A self-employed alumnus of a second-level Ivy college... Had I expected to survive on ‘old school ties’, I would have died professionally ages ago. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. 50/2 Powder-blue Versace suit..and every hair in its place—the old school ties will just love being bossed by her. B. adj. That wears an old school tie; relating to or exhibiting behaviour or attitudes associated with the wearing of an old school tie. ΚΠ 1936 S. Smith Novel on Yellow Paper 140 Cynthia was..an old-school-tie acquaintance of mine. 1939 G. Household Rogue Male 40 The only class-conscious people are..the suburban old-school-tie brigade and their wives. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. ix. 58 Now this Old School Tie stuff..is only a protest against inefficiency and nothing else. 1949 R. 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. 1958 S. 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. 1989 M. Dobbs House of Cards (BNC) 257 He comes across as being vaguely aristocratic, patrician, old school tie. 1994 Peace Mag. May 6/3 All of these initiatives ran up against the ‘old school tie’ attitudes of British management. Derivatives ˌold school ˈtieism n. the practice of favouritism regarded as operating among former pupils of British public schools. ΚΠ 1973 ‘S. Harvester’ Corner of Playground i. v. 55 Their being boys from adjoining villages, the African version of old school tieism. 1994 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Sept. 9 The objective is to..remove the possibility of nepotism, old school tieism,..or any other undesirableism influencing the selection [of judges]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1920 |
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