old as the hills
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old as the hills (not comparable)
- (simile, idiomatic) extremely old
- 1852, Dickens, Charles, chapter 2, in Bleak House:
- His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable.
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- aged, cobwebby, older than dirt; see also Thesaurus:old
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extremely old
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