people► old-fashioned · Mr Griffiths is a real old-fashioned teacher who still believes that learning lessons by heart is the best method.· My Dad was very old-fashioned and didn't approve of me going to nightclubs with my friends.
► be living in the past to think and behave as if life is still like it was when you were young, especially because you do not like the modern world: · You've got to get over it, honey - you've got to stop living in the past.· Critics say Buchanan is living in the past, and remind him that the 1950s was a time when women were shackled to the kitchen, and African-Americans held back by discrimination.
► behind the times a person or organization who is behind the times , is old-fashioned because they have not changed while the world around them has changed: · People in these parts tend to be way behind the times when it comes to issues such as women's rights.· Once the giants of British retailing, they are now seen as being behind the times.
► straitlaced/straightlaced having a very strong, old-fashioned attitude to moral behaviour: · My aunt's very straitlaced - she'd be shocked if you mentioned sex.· They lost touch with Hermine after she married a very straightlaced Lutheran minister, and disappeared from the social scene.
► fuddy duddy informal someone who you think is old-fashioned and boring because they disapprove of new ideas and are unwilling to change their attitudes: · Don't be such a fuddy duddy!· The election broadcast made the President look like a fuddy duddy with ridiculously old-fashioned ideas.
► old fogey informal someone, usually an old person, who you disapprove of because they prefer old-fashioned ideas and ways of doing things to modern ones: · The old fogies all sit together and talk about the old days.· This country is being run by a bunch of old fogies -- we need some fresh blood, people with initiative.
► old guard a group of people with old-fashioned opinions, who have been in an organization or society for a long time and oppose anyone who wants to change things: · Inevitably, the revolution is affecting the old guard much more than the rest of us.· The party's old guard have their own candidate for leader.
► traditionalist a person who believes that the old ways of doing things are the best, and who does not like modern methods or ideas: · I'm something of a traditionalist myself, I'd much rather use pen and paper than a word-processor.· There are still many traditionalists in the church who strongly oppose the idea of women priests.
someone who is boring and has old-fashioned ideas about things, especially someone old