When I'm of age, I'm going to get married and move to the city.

When Jane comes of age, she will buy her own car.Sally, who came of age last month, entered into an agreement to purchase a house.

Joan was a wonderful singer, but she's past her prime now.This old car's past its prime. I'll need to get a new one.

"Of course I can learn," bellowed Uncle John. "Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?"I'm sorry. I can't seem to learn to do it right. Oh, well. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The children think their mother's as old as the hills, but she's only forty.That song's not new. It's old as the hills.

Grandfather is getting along in years.Yes, he's really getting along.

She injured her hip running. She's exercising rather late in life.Isn't it rather late in life to buy a house?

I don't get around very well anymore. I'm no spring chicken, you know.Even though John is no spring chicken, he still plays tennis twice a week.

You can't go out with Bill. He's old enough to be your father!He married a woman who is old enough to be his mother.

Now that Mary's forty, she thinks she's over the hill.My grandfather was over eighty before he felt as if he was over the hill.

Mr. Smith died last night, but he lived to a ripe old age—99.All the Smiths seem to reach a ripe old age.

My uncle is up in years and can't hear too well.Many people lose their hearing somewhat when they are along in years.

Jane's husband is well up in years. He is nearly 75.Joan's well up in years but healthy.

I recall the joys I experienced in the warm summer air in my salad days.In our salad days, we were apt to get into all sorts of mischief on the weekends.

I hear that Bill is dating Ann. Isn't that sort of robbing the cradle? She's much younger than he is.Uncle Bill—who is nearly eighty—married a thirty-year-old woman. That is really robbing the cradle.

John's too young to take on a job like this! He's still wet behind the ears!He may be wet behind the ears, but he's well trained and totally competent.Tom is going into business by himself? Why, he's hardly dry behind the ears.That kid isn't dry behind the ears. He'll go broke in a month.

She's fifty if she's a day!I'm sure he's fortyfive if he's a day.

That was sort of a juvie thing to do.Don't be so juvie.She still has a lot of juvie attitudes.

You're only fifty! You're not over the hill yet.Some people seem over the hill at thirty.

She looked like she was pushing forty-eight or fifty.He's only pushing thirty, but he looks much older.

The conductor loves to have us play that old warhorse as an encore.What time does the old warhorse's train get in, and how long is she staying this time?