tried and true
tried and true
Known to be reliably effective from previous experience. Hyphenated if used as a modifier before a noun. I've got a way of rustling up more business that's tried and true. I prefer to use my own tried-and-true methods rather than experimenting with others that I don't know.
See also: and, tried, true
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
tried and true
trustworthy; dependable. (Hyphenated before nominals.) The method I use to cure the hiccups is tried and true. Finally, her old tried-and-true methods failed because she hadn't fine-tuned them to the times.
See also: and, tried, true
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
tried and true
Tested and proved to be worthy or reliable, as in Let me deal with it-my method is tried and true. [Mid-1900s]
See also: and, tried, true
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
tried and true
proved effective or reliable by experience. 1967 Listener Miss Aukin had the good sense to use the tried and true concealment gambit by which eventually two young officers, bent on cuckolding a greengrocer, were compelled to hide in the same grandfather clock.
See also: and, tried, true
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
tried and true
Tested and proven effective. Although this term has the archaic sound of a medieval contest, it dates only from the twentieth century. William Faulkner used it in A Fable (1954): “His enslavement . . . from which he will emancipate himself by that one ancient tried and true method.”
See also: and, tried, true
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- black market
- first hand
- round robin
- a round robin
- eleventh hour
- heads I win, tails you lose
- a light touch
- rust bucket
- good for nothing
- good-for-nothing