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Meaning of there's life in the old dog yet | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

A person's faculties, or an organization's usefulness, should not be written off simply because of age.

Equivalents

Español el que tuvo, retuvo gallina vieja hace buen caldo

Français c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe

Examples

“It wasn’t quite Sacheen Littlefeather, but a rolling tide of firebrand speeches showed there’s life in the Hollywood dog yet.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle there's many a slip between the cup and the lip there's many a slip twixt cup and lip there's more than one way to cook an egg there's more than one way to crack an egg there's more than one way to feed a cat