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general::
older
phrases
be 5/10/50 etc years old
• My dad is 45 years old.
a five-year-old/fifteen-year-old etc somebody/something
• a three-year-old boy
how old is …?
• ‘How old is your daughter?’ ‘She’s ten.’
be too old for something
• He was too old for military service.
be old enough to do something
• You’re old enough to help with the cooking.
somebody is old enough to know better
(= used when you think someone should behave more sensibly )
• He’s old enough to know better, but he went and did it anyway!
somebody is old enough to be sb’s mother/father
(= used when you think that someone is much too old to be having a relationship with another person )
• Why would she want to go out with someone who was old enough to be her father?
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