any old

Idioms  

1. No particular, whichever or whatever, as in Any old brand of detergent suits me. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

The few pieces of furniture — a couch, three chairs, a low table — seemed placed any old way around the room as if Jessica and her family had moved in only minutes before.

From Literature

My things were strewn about on the sled, thrown in any old way.

From Literature

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