old as the hills

English

Alternative forms

• older than the hills

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Adjective

old as the hills (not comparable)

1. (simile, idiomatic) extremely old
   • 1852, Dickens, Charles, chapter 2, in Bleak House:

     His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.

Synonyms

• aged, cobwebby, older than dirt; see also Thesaurus:old

Translations

extremely old

• Finnish: vanha kuin taivas
• French: vieux comme le monde (fr)
• Hungarian: vén, mint az országút (hu)
• Irish: chomh sean leis an gceo, chomh sean leis na cnoic, chomh sean leis na clocha glasa, chomh sean leis an díle
• Italian: vecchio come Matusalemme m, vecchio come il cucco m

• Polish: stary jak świat (pl) m
• Portuguese: mais velho que a Sé de Braga
• Spanish: más viejo que Matusalén, más visto que el tebeo
• Swedish: gammal som gatan (sv)
• Welsh: cyn hyned â phechod, cyn hyned â Methuselah, cyn hyned â'r garreg