old as Adam

1. Also, old as the hills. Ancient, as in He must be as old as Adam by now, or That joke is as old as the hills. The first term, alluding to the first human created by God, according to the Bible, was first recorded only in 1867. The variant, referring to geological time (when mountains were created), dates from about 1800.

Example Sentences

These efforts to make women responsible for men’s bad acts are as old as Adam, Eve, and the apple, and are a perverse sort of marital traditionalism.

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It is a tale as old as Adam and Eve: A husband, faced with accusations of misconduct, blames the wife.

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“The political comes into being when we distinguish between men and gods, a line as primordial as that between friend and foe, and as old as Adam’s fall,” Subin writes.

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“What we’re dealing with, when people start doing something illegal, is exactly as old as Adam and Eve,” she said.

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"The motives that are breaching competition law are as old as Adam and Eve. It's about greed. Fear," she said in a speech in 2017.

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