be long in the tooth
informalDefinition
› to be old, often too old to do something: He's a bit long in the tooth to be wearing jeans, don't you think?Describing people who are oldThe elderly
(Definition of be long in the tooth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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