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Definition of Tried and true
1. Adjective. Tested and proved to be reliable.
Definition of Tried and true
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Well-established and tested; known to work or succeed based on extensive experience. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tried And True
Literary usage of Tried and true
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... war service tried and true To the original group of sturdy and devoted engineers
trained at Cornell we now added John CL Fish in Railroad Engineering. ..."
2. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... tried and true WE were to need all the fulness of consolation that could be
expressed from divine grace and human friendships, in the years immediately ..."
3. Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester, Massachusetts, During the by Emory Washburn (1860)
"Come, come, come, Come to this festal board, Ye who have wandered long, Ye old
friends tried and true 5 Oh ! come in a phalanx strong. ..."
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