Idiom
big old
Meaning
Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He drives a big old truck to work every day.”
“She found a big old spider hiding in the corner of the basement.”
“The explorer stood before the big old oak tree, marveling at the centuries of history held within its gnarled, massive branches.”
Examples
simple
“He drives a big old truck to work every day.”
contextual
“She found a big old spider hiding in the corner of the basement.”
complex
“The explorer stood before the big old oak tree, marveling at the centuries of history held within its gnarled, massive branches.”
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