old hat

all hat and no cattle

Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.

all hat and no cowboy

Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious.

any old nook or cranny

Alternative form of any nook or cranny.

bad old days

The past, seen as a time when things were worse.

big old

Emphatically or impressively big; really big.

black hat

A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).

brick in one's hat

Drunkenness.

chip off the old block

Someone who takes after one of their parents; (generally) a person similar to another.