phrase

• Very old (often used in exaggerated statements)

  ‘the technology we're using is as old as the hills’

  More example sentences

  • ‘What's going on is not exceptional… it's a story as old as the hills and a lot older than the Internet.’
  • ‘Some of the reasons for this are as old as the hills.’
  • ‘Feeling as old as the hills, I get my coat and leave.’
  • ‘Now this debate might be and probably is as old as the hills - I honestly don't know, but I can at least guess.’
  • ‘The schemes and lures used to motivate us to forward chain letters are as old as the hills, and we only annoy our friends by sending them on.’
  • ‘The story is as old as the hills, and there can be nothing compelling about such hackneyed themes.’
  • ‘The story of men clinging to power long after they have outlived their uselessness is as old as the hills and just as obvious.’
  • ‘To value the sound of a poem as much as its written meaning may seem like a new thing; in fact it's as old as the hills.’
  • ‘The idea of marriage is almost as old as the hills and was performed even in the most primitive of human societies and cultures.’
  • ‘Sure, this technique is as old as the hills, but it works.’

  Synonyms

  out of date, outdated, outmoded, old-fashioned, archaic, antiquated, anachronistic, ancient, antediluvian, superannuated, outworn, behind the times, primitive, medieval, quaint, old-fangled, obsolescent, obsolete, prehistoric