old as Methuselah

(as) old as Methuselah

Very old. An allusion to the biblical figure Methuselah, said to have died at the age of 969. Oh, my granny is old as Methuselah—she can't hear us. Why don't we ever sing new songs? Those hymns are as old as Methuselah.
See also: Methuselah, old
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*old as Methuselah

very old. (Of a person; refers to a biblical figure held to have lived to be 969. *Also: as ~.) Old Professor Stone is as old as Methusehah but still gets around with a cane.
See also: Methuselah, old
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (as) old as Methuselah
  • Methuselah
  • be as old as Methuselah
  • old
  • be (as) old as the hills
  • (as) old as Adam
  • Adam
  • as old as Adam
  • old as Adam
  • make old bones
References in classic literature
"Now, you are my witness, Miss Summerson, I say I don't care-but if he was to come to our house with his great, shining, lumpy forehead night after night till he was as old as Methuselah, I wouldn't have anything to say to him.
Bleak House
You will be as old as Methuselah, if you wait till I am your wife.
Man And Wife
'A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,' said Mr.
The Chimes
At that time he looked to be as old as Methuselah but then strangely, his appearance never altered throughout the succeeding decades until the time of his death.
Letter: Your Say - Fond memories of 'Father' Oliver
I calculate that by the end of the season I will be as old as Methuselah.
YourShout: 88th birthday
Spanning millennia, from a revisionist Garden of Eden to the world of 30,000 A.D.--where people as old as Methuselah wear togas and willfully evolve their own brains to think great thoughts--the cycle has had only a handful of productions since the London mounting of 1923, when Edith Evans played the Serpent, Oracle and She-Ancient.
Back-To-Back Methuselah