vello coma o mundo
Galician
editEtymology
editLiterally, “old as the world”.
Adjective
edit- (simile) old as the hills
- 2006, Daniel Kehlmann, A medición do mundo, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 40:
- Humboldt soubo que o Directoire quería enviar un grupo de exploradores aos Mares do Sur baixo a dirección do grande Bougainville, pero o home era tan vello coma o mundo, estaba xordo de todo […]
- Humboldt learned that the Directory wanted to send a group of researchers to the South Sea under the command of the great Bougainville, but Bougainville was as old as the hills, stone deaf […]
Further reading
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vello coma o mundo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega