| 单词 | old-line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasold-line old-line adj. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) relating to or adhering to traditional beliefs or policies; conservative (cf. line n.2 13c); (b) long-established, venerable. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [adjective] > opposed to change Tory1651 unprogressive1722 conservative1802 old-line1803 improgressive1809 old school1816 conservatory1822 conservatist1835 unmarching1837 mossbacked1876 mossy1904 passéist1914 pastist1921 Luddite1957 1803 J. Allingham Marriage Promise 1 I hope it will..be the means of waking up old-line Homœopaths to the value of remedies they have so long discarded. 1856 Congress. Globe 9 Jan. 180/3 Have they offered us one of my colleagues, an old-line Whig? 1908 R. W. Chambers Firing Line xxi. 353 I'm in an old-line institution. 1928 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 1 Feb. (1964) 383 I rode..with the president of a very prominent club, not my own, a Princetonian of the rather old-line, conservative, very gentlemanly type. 1962 R. Tyre Douglas in Sask. v. 78 The Socialists had high hopes of winning the 1934 election but the farmers were not quite ready yet to abandon their traditional support of the old line parties. 1994 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Nov. a9/4 Quality was..an old-line company owned by Manor Care, a pennywise, ultraconservative nursing-home chain based in Silver Spring. < as lemmas |
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