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单词 little old
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little old
b. little old: used as a familiar or mock-depreciatory mode of reference to a thing or (esp. followed by a pronoun or a name) a person or place.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial > of people or animals
slender1548
silly1567
little old1572
1572 J. Parinchef tr. Extracte of Examples, Apothegmes, & Hist. 45 Yet couldest thou neuer, for shedding this little olde bloude of mine, cause me to call him an enimie.
1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 282 Captaine, I shall take my leaue of you?.. No, my little old boy [1602 my little knight Errant].
1870 J. J. McCloskey & O. D. Byron Across Continent in L. Grover et al. Davy Crockett & Other Plays (1940) 78 All I want is my little old six square meals a day, nine schooners of beer,..and a plate of ice cream.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada x. 219 If I design to paint a head, or a foot, or an arm, I get my little old Sarah Jane to peel the particular charm, and just whack her in on the canvas.
1887 Punch 30 July 37/1 He remembers his pardner in Frisco—Yes, he don't forgit little old Me!
1905 ‘O. Henry’ in N.Y. World Mag. 12 Nov. 8/1 Money talks. But you may think that the conversation of a little old ten-dollar bill in New York would be nothing more than a whisper.
1907 F. H. Burnett Shuttle xxiii. 225 She thought there was nothing like little old England.
1966 J. Potts Footsteps on Stairs (1967) xiv. 177 Why couldn't I have been looking out for little old me?
1973 Guardian 12 Mar. 9/1 It was three or four years before I got a little old machine of my own.
1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse vii. 206 Are we providing enough entertainment for you in little old New Haven?
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