any old
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Right then I wasn’t interested in any old green thing popping up out of the ground.
From Literature
“Aw, Daisy,” I said, “you’re always seeing things. I never saw any old man. Did you see anyone, Mama?”
From Literature
This time she grabbed her sleeping mat, water bottles, toothbrush, comb, clothes, and barometer, throwing them into the wagon any old way because now she could see in the distance a whirl of dark air, black and yellow as a bruise, moving across the eastern sky.
From Literature
Rawitch doesn’t get excited by any old bobblehead.
From Los Angeles Times
If you didn’t have to clean out your desk, Mr. Crabtree could just get on the PA system any old day in June and say, “All right, this is it, last day of school. Go on home. Have a great summer. See you in September.”
From Literature
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