Definition of Old school tie

1. Noun. Necktie indicating the school the wearer attended.

Generic synonyms: Necktie, Tie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Old School Tie

old master
old mate
old men
old moon
old moons
old pence
old pennies
old penny
old person
old rose
old salt
old saw
old saws
old school
old school tie (current term)
old sight
old skool
old sledge
old sod
old soul
old souls
old sport
old squaw
old stager
old stick
old style
old style font
old sweat
old sweats

Literary usage of Old school tie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modernising Public Appointments by John Viney, Judith Osborne (1995)
"With the sweeping social changes during the post war period the old school tie network has largely ceased to have the validity it once had. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Many will fight for the Empire, for their old traditions and just because they prefer to fight rather than to give in. But the 'old school tie' will not ..."

3. The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular ...by William Hone by William Hone (1839)
"Goldsmith was a pretty poet,' said 1 to myself, 'a very pretty poet, though rather of the old school. tie did not think and feel so strongly as is the ..."

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