time-tried

adj

time-tried

adj

1

Idiomatic Tested and proved to be reliable over a period of time.

And never mind that Goodstein, a former Grand Poo-bah in the GOP, borrowed that time-tried "silent majority" line from former King Richard.1976 February 7, “A Liberation Publication?”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 5:

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