codger

1 He doesn’t act that much anymore but surfaced to play codgers in his last star outings, “Gran Torino” and “Trouble With the Curve.”

2 She was simple and good, and an angel commanded an old codger called Joseph to take her as his bride.

3 He's a funny old codger.

他这个人可真怪.

4 Since 2003, when he made “Trouble No More,” a collection of old blues and folk songs, he has been a grizzled codger taking the long view, pondering mortality and the meaning of life.

5 “He wakes up in the morning like a sly old codger,” said Pollard.

6 “Carmen, honey, I don’t think that shawl would have made a darn bit of difference. You can’t hide your light under a bushel. And that old codger’s got eyes on his”—she notices me.

7 I tentatively suggest that by this stage we might sound like two crusty old codgers being sentimental about an imaginary golden age.

8 And it didn’t stop Mrs. L. J. Weidenbach, the banker’s wife, who came leading her father, an ancient codger half her size in full Civil War Union blue.

9 But even this codger of a galaxy knows how to get glitzy for the holidays.

10 Pitcher took off his dress shoes and socks, went down there cold and dusted those old codgers.

11 It’s hard to imagine a better send-off for the gaunt-faced performer than “Lucky,” in which he portrays a Stantonesque codger, living in a tiny desert town, who must come to terms with his mortality.

12 He was more like some gabby old codger who would sit next to you on a bus and try to show you bits of paper he kept folded in his wallet.

13 Bezos is undaunted by these codgers, though, and sets about instructing his new employees.

14 We have to understand that he's a lonely old codger, grateful for the company of his son.

15 "I'm sure they are nice old codgers, but I'm afraid I find their work serious-minded to the point of pain and obscure of purpose."

16 But there was the garage sale where he met an old codger selling a shotgun.

17 just an old codger who never harmed anyone

18 The veteran character actor Ray Wise is on hand as the resident curmudgeon raging against modernity, the effect reminiscent less of Andy Rooney than of a demented codger shouting on the subway.

19 The challenge was only compounded for Marino, who had to figure out how these colorful codgers would have aged since the last film.

20 Thankfully it never came to that, although my father and I once had this ridiculous pipe dream that we would read for the bar together, studying in an attic like a pair of Dickensian codgers.

1 老古板

fuddy-duddy

2 老头儿

bugger greybeard

3 家伙

thing lot customer person piece article guy dog skin ball boy concern apple fish egg bird crowd fellow creature bean merchant scout duck buffer jack skate proposition rogue cove dick geek chap bloke gee toad beggar john gent bugger sod cuckoo joker shaver rascal pate wretch bleeder joe carl johnny johnnie bozo kipper jake blighter carle chappy cully gink chappie josser gazabo un

4 老古董

mossback museum piece

5 吝啬鬼

screw cheapskate scrooge tightwad piker churl an old screw save-all skin scrape scraper scrapper nipper chuff hunks muckworm flayflint skinflint tight-wad cheap mit cheap skate

6 怪人

crackpot crotcheteer mattoid one case card character guy original toy nut cure caution zombie quiz gig specimen flake squirrel eccentric originality hare erratic lunatic oddity kook screwball rummy gink zombi ding-a-ling rara avis fruit bird screw personality crack freak crank paradox queer spook weirdo oddball hairpin dork geezer wack fruitcake goofball spaz weirdy galoot ratbag Bandersnatch cueball CASE weirdie odd fish

7 男人

man guy male fellow dude

8 老家伙

old bean trout geezer crock wrinkly