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old sweat

noun

  1. an old soldier; veteran
  2. a person who has a great deal of experience in some activity


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Example Sentences

A Reservist is a dug-out, a recruit a rookie, and a veteran an old sweat.

The old sweat shop wage has gone, and I hope never to return.

Curly, the 'old sweat,' the Mons man, is an excellent portrait.

A Cockney "old sweat," observing a youngster gazing over the parapet, asked him if he were a fatalist.

Now Tsore Jowa came down from the sun and went to the old sweat-house, where she found nothing but a heap of bones and ashes.

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