"old trouble" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means a problem or issue that someone has been dealing with for a long time. Example: Despite their efforts, the company could not seem to shake off their old troubles with budget cuts and low sales.
Old trouble spots -- the Middle East, Iraq, Northern Ireland -- would not go away, and they remained immune to economic incentives.
I tried to tell myself I'd do better next time, but whenever next time came along, the old trouble returned.
Early in his sentence, Holder said he was the same old "Trouble" who struck fear in people's hearts back on the streets.
FIRST came a loud, worrying echo of old troubles.
Enough women were speaking up and being heard that the old troubles could no longer be dismissed.
One reason for the sudden thaw in the market is that time has cured some old troubles.
The end of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 had brought back Antwerp's old troubles, and the control of the Scheldt by the United Provinces was confirmed by the Peace of Westphalia (1648).
Psychological studies have shown that people tend to reconstruct the past in terms of the present -- they often exaggerate the degree of earlier misfortune if they are feeling bad, or minimize old troubles if they are feeling good.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Old Troubles at Child Agency The child welfare offices in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the neighborhood where Nixzmary Brown died, have faced high caseloads and low morale for at least a decade.
It was possible, for a moment, to imagine that the old troubles would soon fade, that the Knicks had finally stopped being, well, the Knicks, and that we'd found a new hero for the years to come.
Most of the toxins are legacies of decade old troubles.
