這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 former pupil (British) · old man (said kindly)
old boy
nounPicture a man standing at the gate of a place he once belonged to: a school, a club, a team. He walked out years ago, but the gate is still half open for him, and the people inside still count him as one of theirs. That shared past is the whole idea. Old here can be read as former rather than aged, and boy points back to the years when he was one of the boys inside. So a man of twenty-five can be an old boy.
A second word, same spelling
old boy
nounHere old goes back to its plain meaning, and the two words turn into a warm, slightly teasing British way of putting old and boy side by side. Sometimes it really is about an old man, spoken of kindly. Sometimes only the warmth is left, and the man it is aimed at is not old at all. Either way the tone is the point: familiar, relaxed, a hand on the shoulder.
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