по старинке

• ПО СТАРИНКЕ coll

[PrepP; Invar; adv]

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1. по старинке жить, одеваться и т.п. Also: ПО СТАРИНЕ (to live, dress etc) according to the tastes or customs of a former time:

- (in) the old-fashioned way;

- as in (the) olden days;

- in the old style.

     ♦ Комната притаилась, по старинке убранная прожившей в этом доме полжизни нянькой (Федин 1). The room remained hushed, furnished in the old style by Nanny who had lived half her life in it (1a).

2. (to do sth., usu. one's job) using old, outdated methods:

- the way it was done in the old(en) days;

- (in) the old-fashioned way;

- [in limited contexts] the way they did it in the good old days.

     ♦ Когда надо было что-нибудь сосчитать, бабушка делала это по старинке, на счётах. When something had to be calculated, Grandma did it the old-fashioned way: on an abacus.