Grand Old Party
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Republican Party is also known as the GOP, or the Grand Old Party.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2020
“Hello, Republicans? Are any of you from the Grand Old Party still out there?”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2019
This selection by Fiorina — she delivered the unsettling news that she has four verses to her song — puts the “old” in Grand Old Party.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2016
He’s a believer in the proverbial “big tent,” and perhaps would prefer the Grand Old Party a little grander, and possibly less old.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2014
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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