of old

Idioms  

1. Formerly, long since, at an earlier time, as in In days of old the whole town turned out to watch the parade. This somewhat archaic idiom dates from about 1400.

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Example Sentences

The jacket we tested came from a small batch of old stock, made more than three years ago, Mountain Warehouse told the BBC.

From BBC

Scrawled on its spine were the words "Collections of Photographs of Old Congress Party- K. L. Nursey."

From BBC

They prayed in chorus—forcefully, tearfully—as if, like Jacob of old, they were wrestling with God.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sometimes they disagree with me on politics but we’re kind of old friends, we came up together, and they forgive me.

From The Wall Street Journal

A giant stack of dishes from the kitchen, a disembodied array of Daffy-like duckbills, an angry storm cloud of old rotary dial telephones embedded in tangled cords — Robert Therrien’s art covers a lot of varied territory.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• age-old
• antique
• crumbling
• former
• old-fashioned
• old-time
• original
• outmoded
• primitive
• traditional
• venerable