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
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 was old school, tie or not, and all the better for it.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010
If Author Fleming is guilty of using the old school tie as a cultural garrote, it is, fittingly enough, his own.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match.
From Time Magazine Archive
