old-fashioned idea
collocation in Englishmeaningsofold-fashionedandidea
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old-fashioned
adjective
uk/ˌəʊldˈfæʃ.ənd/us/ˌoʊldˈfæʃ.ənd/
not modern; belonging to or typical of a time in ...
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idea
noun
uk/aɪˈdɪə/us/aɪˈdiː.ə/
a suggestion or plan for ...
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(Definition ofold-fashionedandideafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Today this is anold-fashionedidea, for this reason.
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We have long passed the stage when we regarded apprenticeships as anold-fashionedidea.
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I have no doubt that some people will say that this is anold-fashionedidea.
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I was brought up on theold-fashionedideathat "fine words butter no parsnips".
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I hope that we shall dismiss for all time theold-fashionedideathat labour relations cannot be good.
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An arms race in this context is anold-fashionedidea.
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It has become fashionable to talk about theold-fashionedideaof the domino theory.
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Theold-fashionedideaof putting in a manager and bringing in third-rate touring companies is a dead loss.
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But is not this a veryold-fashionedidea?
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Some persons have theold-fashionedideathat all women require protection.
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Theold-fashionedideaof a fair day's pay for a fair day's work was a good one.
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I have the ratherold-fashionedideaof believing that the more we give overseas the greater will be the return.
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This seems to me to be a veryold-fashionedidea.
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We have theold-fashionedideaof the nightgown and also theold-fashionedideaof using flannelette for it.
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They have anold-fashionedideaabout that kind of thing.
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That is a veryold-fashionedideaof business.
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The reason for this is theold-fashionedideathat every officer is a man of private means.
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They have anold-fashionedidea, which in my judgment is absurd, that public money should be for education without any public control.
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Indeed, the idea that the ownership of land is in fact a trust is anold-fashionedidearather than a new idea.
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This is of course anold-fashionedidea, but it does not follow for that reason that it is necessarily wrong.
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