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old guard

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the old guard
a group of people who have worked in an organization for a long time and do not want it to change. She has tried to resist attempts by the old guard to halt the reform process.
See also: guard, old


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A regiment of the Old Guard, reviewed on a summer's day in the Champs Elysees, could not have made a more critically correct appearance.
Billy Murphy, and Joe Lloyd, and all the survivors of the old guard, got around me and their arms around me.
Tom showed such undisguised and open-mouthed interest in his narrations that the old guard rubbed up his memory, and launched out into a graphic history of all the performances of the boys on the roads for the last twenty years.
 
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