old guard
守旧派,老兵,守旧者,老将
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- : the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
- : the conservative element of any political party, especially the Republican Party.
- : the influential, established, more conservative members of any body, group, movement, etc.: the old guard of New York society.
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In lieu of a traditional theater release, the buzzy 2020 Netflix action flick Old Guard still gave the platform the ability to boast about its high streaming numbers — even if the movie quickly vanished from the Netflix Top 10.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.
He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
In particular the Governor of Adinskoy offered us a guard of fifty men to the next station, if we apprehended any danger.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.