grandfather in
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To let someone keep their old rights or situation because they were already in the system before new rules came in.
"Existing licence holders were grandfathered in and don't need to sit the new examination."
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to his grandfather in hopes that the merchant would
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to speak with respect of my grandfather in front of me,
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my grandfather in Williamstown uh and I had a interesting thing happened