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good old boy

老好人,好孩子,好老友,老好手

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a male who embodies the unsophisticated good fellowship and sometimes boisterous sociability regarded as typical of white males of small towns and rural areas of the South.
    • : a person who belongs to a network of friends and associates with close ties of loyalty and mutual support.

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Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • In the 90s, it kept gay men out of leadership roles in the Boy Scouts of America.

  • It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.