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some old en · DET

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, old.
2. (US, idiomatic, informal) Some, some unspecified or yet-undetermined one (especially for emphasis).
   • Don't worry, I'll find some old way to do it.
   • So why don't someone here just spike his drink Why don't you do him in some old way Supposed to be a funeral 1970, Gram Parsons in The Flying Burrito Brothers, "$1000 Wedding" lyrics
   • [The con man] will get good folks Because they will just try to help folks in some ole way! 2011, Wilbur Thornton, Intoxicating Winds, page 519:
   • I've been workin' out in the rain Tied to the dirty old ball and chain Oh dear mother I'll come home some old day 1936 (recorded 1957), Foggy Mountain Boys (Flatt and Scruggs, as "Certain and Stacey"), on Foggy Mountain Jamboree, "Some Old Day" lyrics
   • I ain't got but one old rusty dime. / … Oh, I'll have a new dollar some old day, And I'll throw this old rusty dime away. 1930s, "Chilly Winds" (U.S. folk song), collected in John A. Lomax et al., Our Singing Country (1941), p. 294
   • But I don't want you to promise anything – you're a decent old sort, and you'd be sure to make it up to me some old way or other. 1921, Law Notes, volume 40, page 72:

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any old

Translations (2)

fr ~ intensifier adverb bien (some) · sv en eller annan (some)