old school tie
Example Sentences
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With her two Oxford blues for rowing, it would be easy to see the loyalist MP as part of the old school tie club that unites so many of the cabinet.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2012
Wearing what looks like an old school tie, he says his squad is "well-balanced".
From The Guardian • May 16, 2012
Another curiously Sri Lankan trait, highlighted in the book, is the "old school tie", the fierce attachment to one's alma mater.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2011
He went to Harrow and Cambridge, where he acquired the old school tie and what he himself called the "vague humanism" of the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
His books are packed with demons perceived as the rattling of a vicar's teacups, clubrooms full of failed saints and even failed sinners, all wearing the old school tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
