a（或the）grand old man of

a（或the）grand old man of a man long and highly respected in (a particular field) （在某领域里长期非常受尊敬的）元老： a grand old man of Scottish local government. 一位苏格兰地方政府的元老。

• Guardafui, Cape
• diags
• sand lance
• asbestos cancer
• bad words
• take sth up with sb
• pelotherapy
• tallnesses
• hop-pole
• in good time
• Anabantoidei
• exanthema subitum
• yakuzas
• wordlessly
• seroconversion
• at first thought
• showmen
• amphicoelian
• Euhemerus
• boned
• technocratic
• Spansules
• watchable
• kerb-crawled
• leaf butterfly
• abbesses
• outspokenly
• Deuteronomistic
• tradesmen
• inputs
• squelcher
• planoconcave lens
• antecourt
• blastulae
• thickoes
• narrowcasted
• scholiasts
• span of attention
• forgive for
• wide of the mark
• Lecanora
• raspingly
• prebender
• pluralizers
• chute the chute
• predation pressure
• familiarizer
• balanced reading
• mediastina
• proximity effect
• heliographic latitude
• sextants
• somatoblast
• damoiselles
• bellicosely
• force one’s way through
• brew-master
• mouthpart
• formicaries
• gene switch
• theresas
• White Nile
• counterplotting
• at liberty
• on the broad grin
• a cold douche
• diethylstilbestrols
• pullet
• interrobangs
• new birth
• secularizings
• trompe
• Fresnel, Augustin Jean
• cavalla
• in danger of
• shamas
• macedons
• frusta
• feoffors
• extinguishants
• notonectidaes
• mullion
• postaudit
• daisy wheel
• base quantity
• alive in every fibre
• pleural effusions
• Perim
• coke drum
• reflectorizing
• charging pump
• Loanda
• turnpike road
• Anniversary Reactions
• in the light of sb’s countenance
• New Comedy
• micromicro-
• white belt
• Police Motu
• disambiguates