little old me
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9.3
- idiom
- Informal
:
yo, el pequeño
- It's amazing that little old me is getting all this attention.
Examples
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I can't believe that little old me was chosen for this award.
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The other people in there are like Emma Watson, Taylor Swift, the Queen, and then little old me and Zoe, me, me.
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Hi girls, I never thought little old me would be writing in but we are.
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It's all taken from what happened, and you can see just little old me, the things that happened just to me.
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You want little old me, who loves your movies, to come to your house and interview you?
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But I thought that just little old me could have an impact on, on all that, but especially on the drop epidemic especially.
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- It wasn't little old me.
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When I got the promotion, I thought, how could little old me deserve this?
Surface Forms
Morphology
The basic sense — a self-referential, diminutive or modest stance — is reasonably derivable from 'little' (small/insignificant) + 'old' (familiar/endearing usage) + 'me' (oneself). However, the phrase carries conventionalized pragmatic and humorous/ironic nuances (rhetorical modesty or surprise at attention) that are not fully predictable from the words alone, so some prior exposure helps.
Etymology
The phrase little old me comes from a playful image of someone making themselves look small and harmless, and the parts little and old help create that picture. So people use little old me to 'refer to oneself' in a modest or joking way when they are surprised to get praise or attention.