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

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

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

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

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

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

tried and true

Synonyms for tried and true

adj tested and proved to be reliable

Synonyms

Related Words