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c'est un trop vieux poisson pour mordre à l'appâtHe is too old a bird to be caught with chaff.Rate it:

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c'est un vieux loup de merHe is an old sea dog.Rate it:

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c'est vieux comme le mondeIt is as old as the hills.Rate it:

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c'est vieux jeuThat is quite old-fashioned.Rate it:

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ce n'est pas tous les jours fête1. Christmas comes but once a year. 2. One cannot always have “a high old time,” but must work as well. 3. Life is not all beer and skittles.Rate it:

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ce sera mon bâton de vieillesseHe will be my support (consolation) in my old age.Rate it:

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chestnut(Often "old chestnut") A worn-out meme; a phrase, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome.Rate it:

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cock-and-bull storyA far-fetched and fanciful story or tale of highly dubious validity.Rate it:

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coiffer sainte catherineTo remain an old maid.Rate it:

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connu! (fam.)That is an old tale.Rate it:

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cuántos años tieneshow old are youRate it:

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deader than discoextremely old-fashionedRate it:

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decem annos vixisseto be ten years old.Rate it:

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decimum annum excessisse, egressum esseto be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.Rate it:

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des contes à dormir deboutTedious, nonsensical tales; Old wives’ tales.Rate it:

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du temps que berthe filaitWhen Adam delved and Eve span; In the good old times.Rate it:

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elle se fait vieilleShe is getting old.Rate it:

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elles sont aux petits soins pour leur vieille mèreThey are all attention to their old mother.Rate it:

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every cloud has a silver liningIn every bad situation there is an element of good1881, National Academy of Code Administration (U.S.), Folio, page 417:Every cloud has a silver lining; but in the old-fashioned meeting-houses every cloud of hymnal melody generally had a nasal lining before the congregation...1887, Shakers, Religion, page 36:that "a little reserve and thou'lt fail surely," will prove to be true in our experience. Every cloud has a silver lining and so has every sorrow,1918, George Jean Nathan, Performing Arts, page 222:But the most popular attitude toward what we may call "sad" plays is the peculiar one of believing that, since every cloud has a silver lining,Rate it:

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exacta aetate morito die at a good old age.Rate it:

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faire des siennesTo be at one’s old tricks.Rate it:

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fall off the wagonTo cease or fail at a regimen of self-improvement or reform; to lapse back into an old habit or addiction.Rate it:

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get onTo become old.Rate it:

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golden yearsOld age, especially the years after one has retired from employment.Rate it:

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il a fait la noce toute la semaineHe has had a high old time of it all the week; He has been on the spree all the week.Rate it:

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il a trente ans, et cependant il vit aux crochets de sa mèreHe is thirty years old, and yet his mother has to keep him.Rate it:

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il chasse de raceHe is a chip of the old block.Rate it:

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il est bien le fils de son pèreHe is a chip of the old block.Rate it:

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il fait des siennesHe is up to his old tricks again.Rate it:

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je suis en pays de connaissanceI am among people I know, among old friends.Rate it:

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jimmy jack should have been halfway there and backoff of an old country western showRate it:

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kill the rabbitTo get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.Rate it:

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laughing stockC. 1598, William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 1.Rate it:

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legem abrogare (Att. 3. 23. 2)to replace an old law by a new.Rate it:

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let sleeping dogs lieTo leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.Rate it:

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Little Pitchers Have Big EarsSometimes little children who listen to old people’s conversation hear and perceive things a lot than people expect them toRate it:

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long in the toothOld, aged. Rate it:

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Long in the ToothSomeone who gets old, aged or elderlyRate it:

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métro, boulot, dodometonymy for the everyday routine of a Parisian or more generally urban worker. Roughly, same old same old or also rat race.Rate it:

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narratio, fabulaa narrative, tale, story.Rate it:

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No Spring ChickenNo longer young, old person, over his young ageRate it:

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older adultAn old person.Rate it:

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omegaThe twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.Rate it:

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on fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'estA tale never loses in the telling.Rate it:

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on in yearsOld; advanced in age.Rate it:

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on ne prend pas les vieux merles à la pipéeOld birds are not to be caught with chaff.Rate it:

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one more time for the sweet souvenirfor old times' sakeRate it:

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out datedold fashionedRate it:

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out of dateNot current, outmoded, out of style, or too old to be used.Rate it:

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penny blackold stampRate it:

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