Meaning of three score and ten | Babel Free

Definitions

Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.

dated, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“"Why, a man with any feeling ought to be ashamed of being eighty, let alone more. Where’s his religion, I should like to know, when he goes flying in the face of the Bible like that? Threescore-and-ten’s the mark, and no man with a conscience, and a proper sense of what’s expected of him, has any business to live longer."”

“As for old Capt. Hugh Roger, three-score-and-ten had exhausted his fluids, pretty much; but he shook me heartily by the hand.”

“Frank: And he won't die until he's three score and ten: he hasn't originality enough.”

“"[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!"”

“If ever a U.S. horse attains the immortality of Bellerophon's Pegasus or Don Quixote's Rosinante, surely it will be Samuel D. Riddle's Man o' War. This Sunday, at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Ky., "Big Red" reaches the grand old age of 25—an age comparable to three-score and ten for a man.”

“In a nutshell, my philosophy is this: You only get three score and ten so make the most of it.”

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