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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
a Chinese idiom in English?
There is an idiom in Chinese that means something is old. it is literally, "old calendars" or "calendars of the past" (lao huang li)
what is the English equivelant to this idiom?
what is the English equivelant to this idiom?
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Hi, Maybe 'It's as old as the hills' ? Clive
- Hi, Maybe 'It's as old as the hills' ?
- Clive
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If we are saying someone is old we sometimes say "as old a Methuselah".
Methuselah is the longest-lived person recorded in the Bible.
Methuselah is the longest-lived person recorded in the Bible.
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If you mean it is no longer important, you could say it's "yesterday's news."
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Hi,
You might say, of an old-fashioned thing, that it's 'old hat'.
Clive
You might say, of an old-fashioned thing, that it's 'old hat'.
Clive
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