Grand Old Party
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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There is no Grand Old Party in City Hall, just mild-mannered Republicans who live in the District.
From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2021
The Republican Party is also known as the GOP, or the Grand Old Party.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2020
Are any of you from the Grand Old Party still out there?
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2018
All these forebears were members of the Grand Old Party, as was Chafee himself as mayor of Warwick and then successor to his father’s Senate seat.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2015
Other candidates were being scratched for reasons as flimsy, and our Grand Old Man was getting disgusted with the Grand Old Party, as represented at that meeting.
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
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