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What does long in the tooth mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Old, aged.
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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.
I know, at 42, some might consider me a bit long in the tooth by then, but you never know.
As for Johnson, the old Lion may be getting a bit long in the tooth but he is still a formidable opponent.
I'm a bit too long in the tooth to get too worked up about these things any more.
Presumably she was a bit long in the tooth and a bit broad in the beam for evening television.
His gaggle of girlfriends all seem suspiciously long in the tooth to qualify as high-school students.

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