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- Dictionaryold school/ˈəʊl(d) ˌskuːl/
noun
- 1. used, usually approvingly, to refer to someone or something that is old-fashioned or traditional: "he was one of the old school of English gentlemen"
adjective
- 1. having or adhering to old-fashioned values or ways: "the restaurant is an old-school brasserie of the Parisian model"
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Dec 25, 2015 · 1. "Old school" conjures up a vision of a British private school, where the students (all male) wear blazer jackets, sing at breakfast, and endure whippings at regular intervals. Basically it means not just "old style", but "snooty, upper-crust old-style". – Hot Licks. Dec 25, 2015 at 14:02. 4.
6. The Online Etymology Dictionary dates old-school to 1749 as an adjective and simply notes that it's a compound of “old + school,” in reference to conservative beliefs or principles. This supports your suspicion that it's related to “old school of thought.”. The modern slang sense of old school is somewhat different, with stronger ...
Feb 14, 2015 · The other responds "And there's no school like the old school!" And they both chuckle. I'd say its largely up to factors outside of the pure words. How it's meant may be conveyed by tone of voice and facial and other expression. Of course it's also conveyed by the milieu: in a given societal context, "old school" might always be a pejorative.
May 21, 2015 · 3. "Old sport" is structurally like "old friend", in that "old" refers not literally to your friend's age, but rather to the length or strength of friendship. "Sport" with this affectionate meaning is at the very least contemporary to Fitzgerald (see, e.g., here for a reference from the year before Gatsby was published), and possibly much older ...
Sep 21, 2019 · Thanks. I would guess that it's the number assigned to the school. But it really doesn't matter. The 'old school number, thirty-one' can be traced back to an 11 year old Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle wrote to his mother 'PS My number is 31 like last year.'. This is documented in Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters.
@ガベージコレクタ: I'm intrigued. How can you manage to understand "A is not as old as B" as meaning "A is older than B"? Would you therefore say "A is not as big as B" means the same as "A is bigger than B"? Surely you can see that not as old as means not older than, so how can it also mean older than? –
They have a tradition of "introducing" each team's starters with a video snippet, where the player states his name and alma mater (e.g., "Tony Romo, Eastern Illinois University"). Some time back, a few players started saying the names of their high school instead (e.g., "Andy Dalton, Katy High School").
3. Technically, "same old, same old" is a reduplication, a repetition for the purpose of emphasis. It is an idiom, and is usually used alone, e.g. You know. Same old same old. (or, It's the same old same old.) As such, I suppose it could be two adjectives, repeated. It means same old thing.
Jan 25, 2021 · old college try A wild and desperate attempt to make a play. Sometimes the term carries a hint of showboating. Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball, 1928) defined "giving it the old college try" as "playing to the grandstand or making strenuous effort to field a ball that obviously cannot be handled."
Dec 26, 2016 · The usage of -wide as a suffix referring to the whole of (something) dates back to Old English: As a second element in compounds (such as nationwide, worldwide) meaning "extending through the whole of," is is from late Old English. Etymonline. Schoolwide meaning occurring or extending throughout a school in mainly found as a single word (see ...
