on in years
adjDefinitions
Old
Old; advanced in age.
- Being rather young at present—I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young—I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon.
- More years went by, and his wife was dead, and he well on in years.
- I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for on in years. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA