there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

English

Proverb

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

1. (often humorous) Even if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy.

Related terms

• snow on the rooftop

Translations

even if a person is in his or her senior years, with gray hair, he or she can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy

• Hungarian: a vén kecske is megnyalja a sót (literally “even an old goat will lick the salt”)

See also

• there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle