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Alternative forms

• some ol', some ole

Determiner

some old

1. Used other than as an idiom: see some,‎ old.
2. (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.

   • 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

   • 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

   • 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!

See also

• any old

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