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Kid old sock old bean.

Posted by ESC on July 02, 2005

In Reply to: Kid old sock old bean. posted by Bob on July 01, 2005

: : Kid old sock old bean.

: : My Dad used to call me this all the time. Any ideas?

: I have an idea he liked you.

It sounds like college slang to me. I can hear Jimmy Stewart saying it so I must have heard it in an old movie. One reference says "old bean" dates from the 1910s and is a jocular term of address, usually to a man. It could be from "bean" for head or "being." From Cassell's Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green (Wellington House, London, 1998).

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