good-time Charlie

plural good-time Charlies · alternative goodtime Charlie · alternative good time Charlie · alternative good-time Charley · alternative goodtime Charley · alternative good time Charley

1. idiomaticinformalAn affable or happy-go-lucky carefree convivial man.

   just a good-time Charlie, borrowing two bucks here and five bucks there

   a. 1956, Walter Karig, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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   I couldn't be a good-time Charlie ... when I was a kid I was taught not to talk or joke or laugh at the table

   1956, A. J. Liebling, The Sweet Science: Boxing and Boxiana

   You listen to me, you find yourself a nice, substantial man—a widower maybe—and settle down—instead of nashing all those sleeping pills—for what, for whom? – for some Good Time Charlie?

   1960, Billy Wilder, The Apartment