old-line

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Reactionary or conservative.
    — I am deliberately convinced that Mr. Filmore has not the least chance of success, and that if it be at all possible to defeat Fremont, the Democratic party, with their candidates Buchanan and Breckinridge, with the aid of the Union-loving Old-line Whigs, is the only party which has the least chance to do so.
  2. Long-established.
    — One of the old line insurance companies said to me recently, that they never made anything out of their underwriting business, but made their profit out of the investments of the reserved fund

词形变化

more old-line comparative most old-line superlative

词源

From old + line (“stated positions of a political or religious group”). Attested from the 19th century, originally in the United States.
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