new wine in old bottles

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• you can’t put new wine in old bottles — With allusion to MATTHEW ix. 17 (AV) Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. The idea is also expressed allusively as a metaphorical phrase. 1912 L. STRACHEY… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• can't put new wine in old bottles —    This expression means that you should not try to combine new concepts or innovations with an old or long established framework or system.     You ll never get that program to work on your father s old computer. You can t put new wine in old… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• New Wine into Old Wineskins — Man with Wineskin by Niko Pirosmani. New Wine into Old Wineskins is one of a pair of parables told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in …   Wikipedia

• can't put new winein old bottles —    This expression means that you should not try to combine new concepts or innovations with an old or long established framework or system.     You ll never get that program to work on your father s old computer. You can t put new wine in old… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• new — adj New, novel, new fashioned, newfangled, modern, modernistic, original, fresh can all mean having very recently come into existence or use or into a connection, a position, or a state (as of being recognized). A thing is new that has never… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• wine — wineless, adj. winish, adj. /wuyn/, n., adj., v., wined, wining. n. 1. the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and… …   Universalium

• old — see old habits die hard you cannot put an old head on young shoulders old sins cast long shadows old soldiers never die better be an old man’s darling, than a young man’s slave you cannot catch old birds with chaff …   Proverbs new dictionary

• new — see new brooms sweep clean what is new cannot be true new lords, new laws you can’t put new wine in old bottles there is always something new out of Africa there is nothing new under the sun …   Proverbs new dictionary

• wine — see when the wine is in, the wit is out good wine needs no bush you can’t put new wine in old bottles from the sweetest wine, the tartest vinegar there is truth in wine …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Wine — This article is about the beverage. For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• New Albion Brewing Company — The New Albion Brewing Company is a defunct American brewery. Founded in 1976 by Jack McAuliffe in Sonoma, California, New Albion is acknowledged as the first United States microbrewery of the modern era[1][2] , as well as a heavy influence on… …   Wikipedia