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A product of the master mind (
Senior
Service cigarettes advertising slogan )
Absence makes the heart
grow
fonder
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Act your
age
Adult
entertainment ( euphemism for sexual or violent entertainment )
Age
before beauty
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Age
bracket
Age
cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety
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Age
of consent
Age
of discretion
Age
of majority
Age
old
Age
to
age
Any
old
how
Arsenic And
Old
Lace ( Cary Grant movie )
As exciting as watching grass
grow
As
old
as Methuselah
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As
old
as the hills
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As tough as
old
boots
Awkward
age
Bear fruit
Boring
old
fart
Busy
old
fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
Chip off the
old
block
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Come of
age
Come to a head
Come to fruition
Companion plant ( a plant
grown
near to another species to enhance its growth )
Dirty
old
man
Dog's
age
Don't let the grass
grow
under your feet
Don't put new wine into
old
bottles
Feel your
age
First among equals ( the most
senior
person in a group of equal rank )
Fly the coop
Fly the nest
For
old
times' sake
Fully fledged
Give it the
old
college try
Golden
age
Good
old
boys
Good
old
times
Grand
old
man
Grow
a pair
Grow
a tail
Grow
on you
Grow
up
Grumpy
Old
Men ( Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie )
High
old
time
Home
grown
How does your garden grow?
I
grow
old, I
grow
old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a poem by Eliot )
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself ( Albert Einstein quotation )
In a coon's
age
In days of
old
when knights were bold
In the light of experience
In this day and
age
It's raining, it's pouring, the
old
man is snoring
Joined at the hip
Joined up writing
La Belle Epoque ( the golden
age
or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
Lady of a certain
age
Make
old
bones
Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden
grow
( line from nursery rhyme )
Mellow
out
Mellow
yellow
Mental
age
Mighty oaks from little acorns
grow
Money doesn't
grow
on trees
Money for
old
rope
Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an
old
friend ( Prince Charles quotation )
My
old
Dutch ( Cockney rhyming slang for duchess )
My
old
china ( Cockney rhyming slang for mate )
My
old
man
New
age
travellers
New wine in
old
bottles
Not a cough in a carload (
Old
Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Old
Aches and Pains ( Nickname of Luke Appling )
Old
Blue Eyes ( Nickname of Frank Sinatra )
Old
Hickory ( Nickname of Andrew Jackson )
Old
Hunker
Old
King Cole was a merry
old
soul, and a merry
old
soul was he ( line from nursery rhyme )
Old
Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone ( line from nursery rhyme )
Old
Red Eyes ( Nickname of Alice Cooper )
Old
Stoneface ( Nickname of Buster Keaton )
Old
banger
Old
before your time
Old
chestnut
Old
codger
Old
enough to be your mother
Old
fashioned look
Old
fogey
Old
goat
Old
habits die hard
Old
hat
Old
head on young shoulders
Old
lag
Old
lang syne
Old
maid
Old
master
Old
money
Old
reliable
Old
salt
Old
school
Old
school tie
Old
soak
Old
soldiers never die, they just fade away
Old
stand-by
Old
sweat
Old
trout
Old
wives' tale
Out with the
old
in with the new
Play the
old
soldier
Ring out the
old
and ring in the new
Roses
grow
on you ( Cadbury's Roses advertising slogan )
Same
old
same
old
Same
old
story
Season of mists and
mellow
fruitfulness ( from a poem by Keats )
Senior
Service satisfy (
Senior
Service cigarettes advertising slogan )
Senior
moment
Should
old
acquaintance be forgot
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
Sophisticated
living
The Adventure of Shoscombe
Old
Place ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Age
Of Reason ( Jean Paul Sartre book )
The
Age
of Reason
The Grand
old
Duke of York he had ten thousand men ( line from nursery rhyme )
The
Old
Bill
The
Old
Groaner ( Nickname of Bing Crosby )
The
Old
Lady of Threadneedle Street ( Nickname of The Bank of England )
The
Old
Man And The Sea ( Spencer Tracy movie )
The
Old
Mongoose ( Nickname of Archie Moore )
The
Old
Pretender ( Nickname of James Stuart )
The
Old
Pueblo ( Nickname of Tucson Arizona )
The Same
Old
Song ( Four Tops song )
The Space
Age
The
age
of miracles is past
The good
old
days
The mark of a man (
Old
Spice aftershave advertising slogan )
The
old
ball and chain
The
old
country
The
old
lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a poem by Owen )
The third
age
The thrill of Roses Spiced with excitement Speaking of love (
Old
Spice advertising slogan )
There was an
old
woman who lived in a shoe ( line from nursery rhyme )
There's life in the
old
dog yet
There's many a good tune played on an
old
fiddle
There's many a good tune played on an
old
piano
There's no fool like an
old
fool
This is the
age
of the train ( British Rail advertising slogan )
Under
age
Up to your
old
tricks
We make money the
old
fashioned way, we earn it ( Smith Barney advertising slogan )
We're tobacco men not medicine men.
Old
Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (
Old
Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
What's
become
of him?
When I am an
old
woman I shall wear purple ( from a poem by Joseph )
Win your spurs
Winter drawers on (
old
British euphemistic joke )
You are never too
old
to learn
You can't teach an
old
dog new tricks
You dirty
old
man ( A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son )
You've made an
old
man very happy
Your friend in the digital
age
( COX Communications advertising slogan )