grand old age
If a person or animal lives to a grand old age, they live until they are very old:
He lived to the grand old age of 97.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Describing people who are old
- aged
- ageing
- ageless
- aging
- as old as Methuselah idiom
- day
- elderly
- foot
- for a man/woman/person of his/her years idiom
- gaga
- geriatric
- grey
- have had its/your day idiom
- have one foot in the grave idiom
- hoary
- pensionable
- sprightly
- spry
- superannuated
- year
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