Wiktionary
a. 1 (&lit little old English) 2 (context US idiomatic informal chiefly Southern US English) Emphatically, affectionately, or humorously little; ordinary or harmless (especially when trying to downplay the importance of something). alt. 1 (&lit little old English) 2 (context US idiomatic informal chiefly Southern US English) Emphatically, affectionately, or humorously little; ordinary or harmless (especially when trying to downplay the importance of something).
Usage examples of "little old".
Fools rush in, but they are laggards compared to little old ladies with nothing left to fear.
Havisham saw him sitting in some queer little old-fashioned attitude, watching the sea, with a very grave face, and more than once he heard an unchildish sigh rise to his lips.
And the coachman was a wizened little old man who lookedmore like a gnome than a human creature.
Why else would the landgrave have been concerned about a little old lady?
He lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in a little old rock house, with his cat, his computer, and his motorcycle.
It was a historic personage who had been famous in the city of Little Old New York some time between Governor Peter Stuyvesant and Governor Fiorello La Guardia.