Definition of "well-tried" []

• Tested and proved useful or correct (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Gabriel Josipovici has recently entered the limelight thanks to the well-tried technique of making a very small passing remark about Martin Amis et al in a book about modernism and then having it blown up out of all proportion."
• "Second, Nuñez neglects a well-tried system of rules, checks and balances that protects against alleged or realized conflicts."
• "Second, Nuñez neglects a well-tried system of rules, checks and balances that protects against alleged or realized conflicts."