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there's life in the old dog yet

there's life in the old dog yet phrase: a person's faculties, or an organization's usefulness, should not be written off simply because of age.

Phrase

there's life in the old dog yet

  1. A person's faculties, or an organization's usefulness, should not be written off simply because of age.
    • It wasn’t quite Sacheen Littlefeather, but a rolling tide of firebrand speeches showed there’s life in the Hollywood dog yet.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)

Questions about there's life in the old dog yet

What does there's life in the old dog yet mean?
There's life in the old dog yet means a person's faculties, or an organization's usefulness, should not be written off simply because of age.
What part of speech is there's life in the old dog yet?
There's life in the old dog yet is a phrase.

Words near there's life in the old dog yet in the dictionary

  1. there's a time and a place for everything
  2. there's a time and place for everything
  3. there's always a bigger fish
  4. there's been
  5. there's been an accident
  6. there's life in the old dog yet
  7. there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
  8. there's many a slip between the cup and the lip
  9. there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
  10. there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip
  11. there's more than one way to cook an egg

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