long in the tooth
(быть) старым, песок сыплется (длинные зубы у лошади – признак старости)
Пример использования идиомы long in the tooth:
My Uncle Ben was very long in the tooth but very spry.
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Другие идиомы:
- long face
- long arm of the law
- long haul
- fight tooth and nail
- long and the short of it
- tooth and nail
- long shot
- pull (someone's) tooth out
- able to breathe easily/freely again
- as broad as a barn door
- as dry as a bone
- as soft as a baby's bottom
- at each other's throats
- at the top of one's lungs
- back-to-back