What is "old bean"

Usage examples of "old bean".

And the two of them laughing and reminiscing about clumsy old Bean, who just had a way of getting people killed.

Clearly the bean had well rattled the old gentleman, clearly it was more than just any old bean, it was indeed a bean of great singularity, therefore possibly a bean of great value.

Sir Philip, poor old bean, had a most ghastly thirst on, and he was just going to have one on the house, so to speak, when .

I didn't know him from Adam at first, but gradually the old bean got to work, and I placed him.

Never found a girl who would look twice at me before, and it's rather unsettled the old bean.

What I mean is, through brooding on Cyril and hearing him in his part and listening to his views on what ought and what ought not to be done, I suppose I had got a sort of impression rooted in the old bean that he was pretty well the backbone of the show, and that the rest of the company didn't do much except go on and fill in when he happened to be off the stage.

Knowing how keenly the old bean resented being the recipient of anything in the nature of funny business, into which category Gussie's butting in uninvited with his Em in attendance would unquestionably fall, I braced myself for the coming storm with as much fortitude as I could muster.

Krieger into America, Felix, old bean, and we'll see that all your gambling debts are settled and you get a few bucks extra to boot.

I was trying to induce the old bean to recover from the shock and produce some results when she spoke again.