тряхнуть стариной

• ТРЯХНУТЬ СТАРИНОЙ coll

[VP; subj: human; more often this WOJ to undertake the same thing(s) or do sth. in the same manner as one did earlier, usu. in one's youth: X тряхнёт стариной ≈ X will revive <relive, bring back> a bit of the past; X will go back for a taste of the past (the good old days etc); X will go back to the good old days (to his youth etc); [in limited contexts]

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⇒ X will go back to his old trade (hobby etc); X will rake (dredge) up the old skills.

     ♦ ...Ребров предложил скинуться, по трёшке, купить пару бутылок, сырку, колбаски. А он знает тут неподалеку отличное местечко. Мы так и сделали - решили тряхнуть стариной, как выразился Безымянный ("Давненько не пил из горла!") (Зиновьев 2). ...Rebrov proposed that we each chip in three roubles and buy a couple of bottles and some cheese and sausage. And he knew just the place near by. So that's what we did-decided, as Nameless put it, to go back to the good old days ("it's quite a while since I drank straight from the bottle") (2a).

     ♦ "Ведь я, ты знаешь, от [врачебной] практики отказался, а раза два в неделю приходится стариной тряхнуть... Докторов здесь совсем нет" (Тургенев 2). "You see, as you know I've retired from my I medical] practice, but two or three times a week I still have to rake up the old skills. ...There are no doctors round here..." (2e).