单词 | old-time |
例句 | old-time adjective •we danced to Grandfather's old-time music|•it's an old-time tradition:old-style, former, past, bygone, old-fashioned, historic | traditional, folk, ancestral, classical, old-world, quaint. ANT modern.WORD NOTE old-time Old-time, once a fond word meant to bring up happy, nostalgic feelings, has been so completely subsumed by the marketing hive-mind that it now brings forth only thoughts of ersatz lemonade produced in city-sized vats, hard candies labeled "Grandma's" but made exclusively by child laborers of the Third World, and "entertainment" of the animatronic kind. — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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