3 случая, когда OLD – это не "старый": 1. BIG OLD = большущий / здоровый. OLD тут просто модификатор, типа VERY BIG: • When I was 10, I went to a store and bought a BIG OLD bottle of apple wine and drank it by myself until I threw up. 2. Туда же SOME OLD – какой-нибудь; обычный: • I'll come home SOME OLD day. 3. ANY OLD, ~любой, обыкновенный, обычный: • It wasn't ANY OLD cucumber; it was a cucumber with a story. ·················· 4. Заодно про POOR OLD, GOOD OLD etc. – "бедный старый", "старый добрый" – и даже BAD OLD ~"старый недобрый": • I've found myself slipping into BAD OLD habits, including binge-watching Dora the Explorer. Всё это фактически тоже не про возраст: по сути, это – "знакомый участникам разговора". 5. То же самое можно выразить и через SAME OLD: • New year, SAME OLD story: resolutions don’t serve their purpose. ·················· Бонус: AGE-OLD – вековой, извечный: • The study purports to have answered the AGE-OLD question: how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? #вокабуляр