old try 

Old try...when an adult or Old timer aka grandma or grandpa....say to u

"old try"..they r telling u..."go read a king James version bible"

Young adult.."granny I hate life I'm not good enough no one likes me"
Granny.."my child what about just loving urself the old fashioned way..just give an old try...and read that kings version bible like it's ur history book...find GODS doctrine....the old try is What it is since the dawn of time

old try by PRETTY IN COPPER May 24, 2017

The old college try 

To give it your best educated effort.
To use all of your given knowledge to do something that you have never done before.

I have never baked bread before but, I'll give it the old college try.

The old college try by chellee75 February 16, 2009

The Old DeVry Try 

Similar to The old college try but with even less effort; less like "college," more like "trade school."

"As soon as he pulled into the McDonald's drive-thru and seriously asked what I wanted, I knew he was only giving this 'date' The Old DeVry Try."

The Old DeVry Try by Thornbrow April 21, 2010

old college try 

Give something your best shot

"Well I've never made my own KD, but I'll give it the old college try"

old college try by Ian January 22, 2004

old college try 

Giving something your best shot, even if you aren't sure how to do it.
i.e. Mrs. Victoria Landers' way of saying, "I haven't taught you how to do this, and even if I did, you wouldn't understand it. But anyways, here you go!" Attempting the "old college try" always results in uncontrolled rage and frustration rather than learning. This condition is only augmented by trying to find help in the textbook, "Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic," possibly the epitome of a horrible textbook.

Mrs. Landers: "Just give it the old college try and you'll learn it."

Disgruntled student: "FUCK YOU MRS. LANDERS. I haven't learned shit all semester, and doubt I'm going to start learning by giving it the old college try like your whore ass tells me to." (Flips the bird)

old college try by The Voice of the Disgruntled Students of 3rd and 4th Period January 9, 2007

old college try 

To gather your friends, buy some cheap beer, order a pizza, and forget about tomorrow.

Calvin: Dad, what does it mean to "give it the old college try?"
Dad: It's when you gather your friends, buy some cheap beer, order a pizza, and forget about tomorrow.
Mom: That is NOT what it means.
Dad: Where did you go to college?

old college try by Scherch Engine March 2, 2008

old college try 

A wild and desperate attempt to make a play. Sometimes the term carries a hint of showboating.

Babe Ruth (_Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball_, 1928) defined "giving it the old college try" as "playing to the grandstand or making strenuous effort to field a ball that obviously cannot be handled."

The term was quickly applied to any effort with limited chances of success.

From _The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary_ (1999) by Paul Dickson.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/1162.html

In a column that appeared in the _Columbus_ (Ohio) _Citizen_ (Nov. 26, 1927) and was quoted in _American Speech_ (Apr. 1930), Billy Evans wrote that "I gave it the old college try" is a term "often used in big league baseball, when some player keeps on going after a fly ball, usually in foul territory, with the odds about ten to one he would never reach it. Teammates of such a player often beat him to it by shouting in unison with the thought of humor uppermost: 'Well, kid, you certainly gave it the old college try,' as he falls short of making the catch. When some player does something that a professional player might not ordinarily attempt, such as colliding with a fielder who had the ball ready to touch him out, in the hope that he might make him drop the ball, regardless of the danger he was courting, someone is sure to say, often ironically, if the speaker happens to be one of the players in the field: 'That's the old college spirit.'"

old college try by akkartik April 10, 2009