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little old

Emphatically, affectionately, or humorously little; ordinary or harmless (especially when trying to downplay the importance of something).
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How about a little old game of pool?
And now, this little old child is going to bed.
Just one little old poker game now and then, that's not gambling.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'little old':

little oldUsed other than as an idiom: see little, old.
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