some old
English
Determiner
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see some, old.
- (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.
- 1921, Law Notes, Vol. 40, p. 72:
- 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.
- 1930s, "Chilly Winds" (U.S. folk song), collected in John A. Lomax et al., Our Singing Country (1941), p. 294:
- 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.
- I ain't got but one old rusty dime. / [...]
- 1936 (recorded 1957), Foggy Mountain Boys (Flatt and Scruggs, as "Certain and Stacey"), on Foggy Mountain Jamboree, "Some Old Day" lyrics:
- 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
- I've been workin' out in the rain
- 1970, Gram Parsons in The Flying Burrito Brothers, "$1000 Wedding" lyrics:
- 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
- So why don't someone here just spike his drink
- 2011, Wilbur Thornton, Intoxicating Winds, p. 519:
- [The con man] will get good folks
Because they will just try to help folks in some ole way!
- [The con man] will get good folks
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