tried and true
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Meaning · English
Reliable and effective due to experience or testing
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
Đáng tin cậy và hiệu quả do kinh nghiệm hoặc thử nghiệm
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Literally: tested and found to be true
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
It says people were turning again to the old tried and true spices of Guilt and Feeling Dirty and Furtiveness And Stuff in a frantic attempt to resurrect the whole sad affair.
And the tried and true w, tested, the tried and tested ways aren't necessarily going to be of any use to you.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “tried and true” mean?
Reliable and effective due to experience or testing Literally: tested and found to be true
Is “tried and true” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.