Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/August 4

Word of the day
for August 4
old as the hills adj
  1. (idiomatic, simile, chiefly hyperbolic) Extremely old.

The French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment, the oldest human being whose age is well documented, died on this day 25 years ago in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days.

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