good old

English

Alternative forms

• good ol' (eye dialect)
• good ole (eye dialect)

Adjective

good old (not comparable)

1. Reliable; typical; consistently good.

   Good old Jenny – she typed out all the reports last night for us.

   There's nothing like a good old American action film.

Usage notes

• Only used attributively. The use implies the speaker is familiar with the entity mentioned.

Derived terms

• good old boy
• good old days

Translations

reliable

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老好 (lǎohǎo) (of a person), 可靠 (zh) (kěkào) (lit. "reliable"), 典型 (zh) (diǎnxíng) (lit. "typical"), 經典／经典 (zh) (jīngdiǎn) (lit. "classic")

• Finnish: vanha kunnon
• French: bon vieux (fr), des familles (fr)
• German: guter alter
• Hungarian: jó öreg
• Icelandic: gamli góði, (weak inflection) trausti (is)
• Italian: buon vecchio
• Portuguese: bom e velho
• Russian: ста́рый до́брый (ru) (stáryj dóbryj)
• Spanish: de toda la vida
• Swedish: gamla goda

See also

• plain old
• poor old
• same old