old as Methuselah
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Worries about the advanced age of leading politicians are as old as Methuselah.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023
When I was a teen-ager, I spent a summer wandering the Highlands and islands of Scotland, looking at Neolithic ruins as old as Methuselah.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
Considering that Shakespeare wrote these words in an era when a person’s average life span was about 45 years, he clearly intended Lear to be as old as Methuselah.
From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2014
Buddha, as offered by Actor Hampden, seemed not very divine but as old as Methuselah by the time he stopped prancing as Prince Siddartha and took to meditation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Faith, yer honor, and I'll not forget it, if I live to be as old as Methuselah.
From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)