an old/a wise head on young shoulders
a child or young person who thinks and talks like an older person who has more experience of life
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Wise and sensible
- be a victory for common sense idiom
- canny
- discerning
- discriminating
- discrimination
- far-sighted
- gnomic
- legitimacy
- no flies on sb idiom
- no-nonsense
- out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) idiom
- perspective
- perspicacious
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- savoir-faire
- sensible
- wise
- wisely
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