to a/the ripe old age
to a/the ripe old age
To an especially old age. You won't live to a ripe old age if you keep eating all that junk food! My grandmother on my dad's side lived to the ripe old age of 108.
See also: age, old, ripe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
at/to a ˈripe old age
,at/to the ripe old age of...
at/to a very old age: My grandmother lived to a ripe old age. My uncle was still driving a car at the ripe old age of 89.See also: age, old, ripe
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