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What does long in the tooth mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Old, aged.
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As I said before, this particular wharf is getting long in the tooth.
The 30-year old Georgian, though, is too long in the tooth to be fazed by such criticism, and is raring to get back into the scoring habit.
If someone was in for 15 or 20 years and they're getting a little long in the tooth and short in the hair like myself, what would happen if they couldn't meet certain fitness standards?
But the car was looking increasingly long in the tooth, despite continuous design improvements.
I think I am too long in the tooth to start adopting the dress down policy of many of today's businesses.
I'm a bit too long in the tooth to get too worked up about these things any more.

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