the old man

the old man

1. One's father. We'll have to wait till the old man is asleep before we take the car out.
2. One's husband or male romantic partner. I'd better not stay for another drink, or the old man will start to wonder where I am!
See also: man, old
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

the old man

verb
See old man
See also: man, old
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (one's) old man
  • (one's) old lady
  • at (one's) doorstep
  • at doorstep
  • better (to be) safe than sorry
  • better safe than sorry
  • at (one's) expense
  • at expense
  • at somebody's expense
  • at someone's expense
References in classic literature
After lunch Levin was not in the same place in the string of mowers as before, but stood between the old man who had accosted him jocosely, and now invited him to be his neighbor, and a young peasant, who had only been married in the autumn, and who was mowing this summer for the first time.
The old man, holding himself erect, moved in front, with his feet turned out, taking long, regular strides, and with a precise and regular action which seemed to cost him no more effort than swinging one's arms in walking, as though it were in play, he laid down the high, even row of grass.
'Why, bless thee, child,' said the old man, patting her on the head,
The old man kissed her, then turning to me and begging me to walk in, I did so.
Aha!' said the old man, a brief description of whose manner and appearance concluded the last chapter, 'aha!
There was something so odd in the old man's sudden energy, and the subject which had called it forth, that Mr.
Every morning there came an old fellow to him who put his rooms in order, and went on errands; otherwise, the old man in the plush breeches was quite alone in the old house.
will you give this to the old man over the way from me?
Some were amusing, some almost beautiful, and one, a woman all drawn out of shape, hurt the old man by her grotesqueness.
For an hour the procession of grotesques passed before the eyes of the old man, and then, although it was a painful thing to do, he crept out of bed and began to write.
The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.
The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
Mr Dorrit was in the habit of receiving this old man as if the old man held of him in vassalage under some feudal tenure.
When the old man came to take away the plate which had contained the Crab's dinner, he found it full of gold, and as the same thing happened every day he soon became very fond of the Crab.
They greeted one another, and then the old man said to him, "May I ask, brother, what brought you to this desert place, where there are so many evil genii about?