【明報專訊】"My old man is a pretty remarkable person," Heloise smiled. "All I have to do is give a loud cry and he wakes up, climbs out of his warm bed, puts on his slippers in the dark, turns on the light, and hurries to my room bearing a gift that's guaranteed (保證) to silence me! What a guy, that old man of mine! I wonder where my old lady met him?" In colloquial speech, someone's old man is his or her father, husband, or boyfriend.