be long in the tooth

I am long in the tooth, and knew instantly you posed a danger to me.

You don't all have to be long in the tooth like we are to serve."

"The calendar alone tells you this conservative cycle is long in the tooth," he said.

I can still be longer in the tooth."

As for being long in the tooth, he can still out-march most men half his age and, like I said, he knows the area.

They may be long in the tooth, but they haven't lost their bite."

"I can remember not too long ago that there were a lot of guys in the job who were long in the tooth."

TEETH: Being long in the tooth comes from experience and maturity in life.

"I had a preconception we would all be long in the tooth here," said a new volunteer, Arthur Goodman of West Bay Shore, a retiree.

Our original guide hasn't been updated since the Celeron overclocking era, and many readers wrote in to let us know that it was long in the tooth.

But make no mistake, the prospect of such a shift into stocks would be a powerful, positive force on a bull market, which investors fret is long in the tooth.

Lyons 'Long in the Tooth' "Marty Lyons is long in the tooth," Gutman conceded, speaking of the 31-year-old lineman.

An exception to this racial disparity is Julio Franco, the Mets utility man, who is 48; perhaps it's because he flaunts being long in the tooth that no one mocks him.

Bull markets are long in the tooth when the stock market's yield hits the 2.75 percent to 3.25 percent range, noted Norman Fosback, the editor of Market Logic, an investment newsletter.

Although both Orvis and L. L. Bean favor catch and release, both still offer wicker creels for sale, a nod to tradition that pleases some anglers who are long in the tooth.

The décor of the restaurant, which seats 110, was long in the tooth, but the overall atmosphere - including Ms. Vizzone's business-as-usual attitude - put me in mind of what it feels like to visit Italian relatives.

Mac Pro is long in the tooth and pundits speculate and seemingly seem to relish encouraging its demise because they can write and function entirely on a MacBook Air and do the FCP tutorials too," Alper said.

Being long in the tooth, decrepit, and omitted from invitation lists when the great parties were being readied for the caterer, the Duffys pere and mere said, "Oh boy, at last we're going to have a little of the youth and fun of yore in the house again."

In 1962, with burlesque only a memory in most cities, Ms. Corio brought it back to New York with a presentation entitled "This Was Burlesque," a blend of comedy skits that were long in the tooth and pretty girls who took off most of their clothes to loud music.

A beaming Mr. Smith was on the front page of every major British newspaper today, and commentators noted that the idea that he has slain the dragon of the big unions - even though that dragon has been long in the tooth for years - will sit well with much of the public.

During the next several weeks, the 337 Duke of Portmaine, jokingly referred to as the Scottish Earl by his friends, was seen to grace countless social functions, dancing with most of the debutantes the season had to offer, even those young ladies who had been unkindly stigmatized as being long in the tooth, squint-eyed, or bracket-faced.