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  tried and true
      adj 1: tested and proved to be reliable [syn: tested, time-
             tested, tried, tried and true]

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "tried and true":
     acknowledged, admitted, blase, committed, confirmed, constant,
     conventional, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, customary, dedicated,
     dependable, devoted, established, experienced, faithful,
     faithworthy, fast, fixed, folk, hallowed, handed down, heroic,
     hoary, immemorial, incorruptible, inveterate, inviolable, knowing,
     legendary, long-established, long-standing, mature, matured,
     mythological, not born yesterday, of long standing, of the folk,
     old, oral, practiced, prescriptive, proved, proven, received,
     recognized, reliable, responsible, ripe, ripened, rooted,
     sagacious, seasoned, secure, sophisticated, staunch, steadfast,
     straight, sure, tested, time-honored, to be trusted, traditional,
     tried, true, true-blue, trustable, trustworthy, trusty, understood,
     unfalse, unperfidious, untreacherous, unwritten, venerable,
     verified, veteran, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise, worshipful