| 单词 | old as the hills |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) old as the hills P3. (as) old as the hills [perhaps in allusion to Job 15:7 ‘Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?’] , exceedingly or immeasurably old. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > ancient or of early origin oldeOE olden daysa1400 for-oldc1400 ancient1475 (as) old as Adama1599 antiquary1599 high1601 primal1604 hoary1609 grandeval1650 Noachal1661 patriarchal1806 (as) old as the hills1819 world-old1837 eld1854 age-old1860 far-back1869 Noachian1874 pornial1883 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) I. iii. 58 I thought he was going to make a die of it! Why he's as old as the Hills. 1898 Tit-Bits 23 Apr. 73/3 The superstition..is almost as old as the hills. 1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means iv. 25 A violent revolution cannot achieve anything except the inevitable results of violence, which are as old as the hills. 1995 Empire Nov. 113/2 He's as old as the hills, he must be 70 if he's a day! < as lemmas |
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