old-fashioned notion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofold-fashionedandnotion
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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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notion
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnəʊ.ʃən/us/ˈnoʊ.ʃən/
a belief ...
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(Definition ofold-fashionedandnotionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is not anold-fashionednotionof dependence on their part.
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Thatold-fashionednotionis now re-emerging in connection with how the electricity and water industry privatisations are to take place.
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I have anold-fashionednotionthat the hardest and most dangerous work should be the highest paid in any industry.
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I hope he will cling to thatold-fashionednotion, and that we shall often hear him on that and other matters.
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That is a slightlyold-fashionednotion, but, as most people in the local authority and social rent sector are on low incomes, cutting rents would be a well-targeted universal subsidy.
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That is anold-fashionednotion.
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I do hope that noold-fashionednotionwill prevent him from complying with the plan which is there adopted for getting a crop of potatoes sown and harvested.
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Some of us have old-fashioned notions about these things.
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We may yet have to get back to our old-fashioned notions.
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We must get out of our rather timid and old-fashioned notions.
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I have old-fashioned notions about relating taxation to the ability to pay.
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