English
Adjective
good old (not comparable)
- 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
Translations
reliable
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (please verify) 老好 (lǎohǎo) (of a person), (please verify) 可靠 (zh) (kěkào) (lit. "reliable"), (please verify) 典型 (zh) (diǎnxíng) (lit. "typical"), (please verify) 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
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