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old_as_the_hills

old as the hills

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old as the hills (not comparable)

  1. (simile, idiomatic) Extremely old.
    • 1852, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 2,
      His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.

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