ripe old age

Idioms and Phrases

An age advanced in years, as in I expect to live to a ripe old age . The adjective ripe here means “fully developed physically and mentally,” but the current use of the idiom usually just signifies a long lifespan. [Second half of 1300s]

Example Sentences

At the ripe old age of 5, she was officially a working model.

From The Daily Beast

At the ripe old age of 73, Tina Turner has finally landed her first Vogue cover.

From The Daily Beast

Not so for Amanda Bynes, who announced on Sunday via Twitter that she was ending her acting career at the ripe old age of 24.

From The Daily Beast

But many other things are just as natural—such as dying at the ripe old age of 30.

From The Daily Beast

At the ripe old age of 70, he towed 70 boats with 70 people for 1.5 miles.

From The Daily Beast

Here he died at a ripe old age, not long after his wife gave birth to Caynoh and Caybatz, his successors in later years.

From Project Gutenberg

He informed us that Methuselah lived to the ripe old age of nine hundred and sixty-nine.

From Project Gutenberg

He had stood the trip well, Madame Guyot assured me, and would undoubtedly win through to a ripe old age.

From Project Gutenberg

She survived the poet many years and died at the ripe old age of 71.

From Project Gutenberg

He lived to a ripe old age and was the father of thirty children.

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