Dandy
Dandy adjective - Of the very best kind.
Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Both words in one sentence
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Was standard treatment for a black eye in The Beano, The Dandy and so on, in the good old days when children's comic characters regularly beat each other up to that extent.
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There's also Stand and Deliver, where Adam dresses as a "dandy highwayman" who robs an old rich guy on horseback while taunting him and his wife about their lack of fashion sense.
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A British comic book, possibly The Beano or The Dandy, once had a strip in which two old soldiers were discussing old battles using condiment pots in a cafe.
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