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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

there's life in the old dog yet en · X

Meanings

  1. A person's faculties, or an organization's usefulness, should not be written off simply because of age.
    • It wasn’t quite Sacheen Littlefeather, but a rolling tide of firebrand speeches showed there’s life in the Hollywood dog yet. 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):

Relateds

a creaking door hangs longest · you can't teach an old dog new tricks · there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle

Translations (3)

es gallina vieja hace buen caldo (Translations) · es el que tuvo, retuvo (Translations) · fr c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe (Translations)