"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Your call for "a fresh and urgent look at the whole subject of school violence and gun control" is an old bromide sure to stir emotions, not to foster progress.
- I think my boss subscribes to the old bromide that you don't tear down a wall unless you are sure why it was put up.
- There's an old bromide in science that the answer is almost always staring you right in the face.
- Russia seems to be the exception to Benjamin Franklin's old bromide that nothing is certain but death and taxes; in Russia, only death is certain.
- But over time, he said, many investors became accustomed to it, "and you started to hear the old bromide that this time it's different."
- IF Benjamin Franklin were around today, he might add something to his old bromide that nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Trouble was, those old bromides always sounded truer than they were.
- Populism may sound like an old bromide in politics, but Mr. Kusnet says it's still the way to go.
- I learned that there is truth to the old bromide "Watch what you eat."
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