good old

idiom

variants or less commonly good ol' or good ole

informal

—used before a noun to describe a familiar person or thing with affection or approval

Good old John: you can always count on him to help.

I don't need fancy shoes. I prefer good old sneakers.

They were talking about the good old days.

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Recall still isn’t even available to test yet on Copilot Plus PCs, but some good old fashioned fear, uncertainty, and doubt is spreading about Microsoft supposedly secretly installing it on the latest version of Windows 11. —

Tom Warren, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2024 Serve them with a dollop of Duke's mayonnaise mixed with Old Bay for good old Southern flavor. —

Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2024 The hunger for a good old American time is evident in several other photographs in Nasseri’s series. —

Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024 The point, however, is that this one doesn’t use the star-wheel complication to tell time, but instead good old hands around a straight-up dial. —

Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for good old