any old adj.
(orig. US) anything, whatever, a general term of vagueness, e.g. any old way, any old job.
![]() | Artie 171: Any old farmer [...] could buy up him and a hundred more like him. | |
![]() | Sporting Times 11 July 1/3: Last night, full of fun as a nipper, / I was just right for any old stray bit of sport. | ‘Penny Numbers’|
![]() | Sporting Times 30 July 1/3: Put on any old thing, there is naught you need bar. | ‘Woman’s Wear’|
![]() | AS III:3 218: To say that a girl ‘will go with any old punk’ means that she is not very particular in her choice of associates. | ‘Kansas University Sl.’ in|
![]() | Thieves Like Us (1999) 49: Any old time suited him. | |
![]() | (con. 1944) Naked and Dead 157: Ah’m fugged if Ah’ll wait for any ole deer. | |
![]() | Walk on the Wild Side 99: Scarcely-twenties looking for a daddy, any old daddy who’d tell them where to lie down. | |
![]() | Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 173: Now the old Baboon was settin’ inside on a stool / waitin’ on just any old fool. |