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Act your
age
Advanced in years
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
America's Oldest Living Teenager ( Nickname of game show host Dick Clark )
Ancient
Chinese secret ( Calgon advertising slogan )
Ancient
history
Another day
older
and deeper in debt
Any old how
Arsenic And Old Lace ( Cary Grant movie )
As old as Methuselah
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As old as the hills
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As tough as old boots
Awkward
age
Been around the block a few times
Behind the times
Boring old fart
Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
Chip off the old block
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Coffin dodger
Come of
age
Darby and Joan
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Dirty old man
Dog's
age
Don't put new wine into old bottles
Extinct
is forever ( Friends of Animals advertising slogan )
Feel your
age
For old times' sake
Geezer gap
Getting on in years
Give it the old college try
Golden
age
Good old boys
Good old times
Grand old man
Granny
dumping
Granny
farming
Granny
flat
Granny, what big teeth you have got
Grumpy Old Men ( Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie )
Had a good innings
Hand me downs
High old time
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 this day and
age
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Knocking on
La Belle Epoque ( the golden
age
or beautiful era preceding the First World War )
Lady of a certain
age
Long in the tooth
Make old bones
Mental
age
Money for old rope
Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend ( Prince Charles quotation )
Mrs. Mop (
traditional
English name for a cleaning woman )
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
No spring chicken
Not a cough in a carload ( Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan )
Not long for this world
Not so young as you were
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
Olde worlde
Older
and wiser
One foot in the grave
Out of date
Out of the Ark
Out with the old in with the new
Over the hill
Past it
Past its sell-by date
Play the old soldier
Ring out the old and ring in the new
Rust bucket
Same old same old
Same old story
Seen better days
Should old acquaintance be forgot
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Age
Of Reason ( Jean Paul Sartre book )
The
Age
of Reason
The Chrysanthemum Throne ( the
traditional
term for the reign of the Emperor of Japan )
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 Sash My Father Wore ( Irish
traditional
song )
The Space
Age
The
age
of miracles is past
The
ancient
of days
The days of yore
The evening of your days
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 old-fashioned way
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 )
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a poem by Joseph )
When I'm Sixty-Four ( The Beatles song )
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 )