ripe old age
Meaning
ripe old age
(idiomatic, humorous) A very old age
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Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
“As painful as it may be, I implore you to take solace in the fact that your father lived a fruitful and successful life and passed on at a ripe old age.
Legend has it that it was watercress that enabled St Brendan to live the ripe old age of 180! In Birr Castle in Co. Offaly, Lord and Lady Rosse still serve a soup of watercress gathered from around St. Brendan's well, just below the castle walls.
HARARE - At the ripe old age of 93, Zimbabwe's long-serving President, Robert Mugabe, has offered himself as the candidate to lead his ruling Zanu PF party in elections next year.