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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Any old job would do, I'd have thought.

I'm not sure what the sentence mean. Could you please paraphrase it for me? Why does it have "I'd have thought"?

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"I'd have thought" (I would have thought) means "in my opinion."
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Thank you.

Just one more question. Does the first part mean something like "I could do any of the jobs I did in the past"?r4
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AnonymousThank you.Just one more question. Does the first part mean something like "I could do any of the jobs I did in the past"?r4
No. That "old" is a bit of cozy slang, an intensive meaning something like "whatsoever" and expressing comfortable familiarity (AHD, def. 13). That "d
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