Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
Americannoun
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Now it's time for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to enter stage right and do her routine for the cameras.
From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2022
Who knew the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street had an account on photo-sharing site Flickr?
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2013
It's not just the BoC's relative youthfulness – at 78 a mere stripling next to the 318 years of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street – that explains the lack of haughtiness here.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013
Since then, little love has been lost between Labor's leaders and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is William Cobbett's Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, whose rickety constitution and failing powers—according to that bold and blundering financier—betokened almost immediate dissolution more than a quarter of a century ago.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 by Chambers, William
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