VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Ripe old age

Meaning:

Very old age.

Examples:

  • Sure they live to be a ripe old age, but when they look back on those long lives, what do they feel?
  • Coffee's the best friend a man ever had, keeps you wide awake, helps you avoid trouble and gives you the strength to live to a ripe old age.
  • At this ripe old age of 30, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in this horrible, beautiful time, and I've decided, for me, it's been a real journey and paradox.
  • I love my parents very much. I hope they live to a ripe old age.
  • Only if you want to live to a ripe old age.
  • He lived to a ripe old age and he deserves his rest.
  • I know three words that won't be in them: "ripe old age. "
  • You are going to live a ripe old age
  • I'm sure he was very happy and lived to a ripe old age.
  • He'll probably live to a ripe old age.