"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I'd rather stay with mother and become a real old maid.
- But there was nothing of the old maid about her.
- Her husband seems a nice sort of a man, but she can't get over being an old maid, that's what.
- By the standards of the 1920's she was already an old maid.
- And, by the way, there is no such thing as an old maid any more, the books says.
- I am an old maid who happens to have a rich father.
- Some, like the little old maid, who was the first, never returned.
- I can't take much more of this old maid's tea party.
- There is one who has been with us a long time - but then those are old maids of course.
- I may be an old maid, she reflected, but at least I'm a happy one.
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