English Dictionary

good old boy

名詞

慣用表現 南部アメリカ英語 軽蔑的 時々

(idiomatic) A male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow.

日本語の意味

特に同窓生など、かつての学校仲間や親しい友人を意味する / 社会やビジネスのシーンで互いに助け合う、互恵関係にある男を指す / 信頼でき、実直な男というニュアンスも含む

When I ran into my good old boy from college at the café, we talked as if no time had passed.

大学時代の古い友人にカフェでばったり会うと、時間が経っていないかのように話し込んだ。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) A male friend or chum, especially a schoolmate; a man with an established network of friends who assist one another in social and business situations; a decent, dependable fellow.

Billie, what kind of a lad is that young Coke up at Washurst? He addressed an old college friend. . . . He's one of those Ohio Cokes—regular thing—father millionaire—used to be a barber—good old boy.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, chiefly Southern US, sometimes derogatory) A friendly, unambitious, relatively uneducated, sometimes racially biased or misogynistic white man who embodies the stereotype of the folksy culture of the rural southern USA.

White Lightning concerns a good old boy named Gator McKluskey (Burt Reynolds) who is serving time in the Arkansas pen for messing around with illegal liquor.

good old boys （ plural ）