for old times' sake en · ADP
Pronunciation
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Etymology
See old time.
Meanings
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(idiomatic) An appeal to the nostalgia of prior experiences to convince someone to do something.
When gang leader Chen Xinfu was apprehended in Haikou, capital of south China’s island province of Hainan, earlier this month he told his arresting officers: “Guys, take good care of me, for old times’ sake.” Unlike the hundreds of other mob bosses who have been rounded up in recent months, Chen has a special relationship with the police: before his descent into the criminal underworld, he was deputy head of the public security bureau in the city’s Xiuying district.
2019 April 14, Guo Rui, “China’s war on organised crime, corrupt officials sees 79,000 people detained”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2019, Politics:
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Synonyms
one more time for the sweet souvenir
Translations (4)
fi vanhojen aikojen kunniaksi (Translations) · pl po starej znajomości (Translations) · fr comme au bon vieux temps (Translations) · fr en mémoire du bon vieux temps (Translations)