0 A time-honoured tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years: --
humorous The developers dealt with the problem in the time-honoured fashion/way, burying the industrial waste in landfill sites.
Clearly, therefore, that also is not very hopeful as a solution but is possibly, in the time-honoured jargon, an avenue to be explored.
There are ordinary, approved and time-honoured ways of doing that.
So, the time-honoured concept of apprenticeship, which involves the commitment of an employer to train, is in jeopardy.
That is the time-honoured excuse for wrongdoing on which the weak always fall back to excuse their vices.
I started this maiden speech in time-honoured fashion by talking about my constituency.
We are playing ducks and drakes with time-honoured experience and teaching.
After all, the time-honoured principle that ' 'ought' ' implies ' 'can' ' would be totally empty if ' 'can' ' were not to refer to what is possible for actual human beings to accomplish.
In the eleventh century soldierly exploits were inevitably written up in time-honoured heroic mode.
