Sentence examples for age old thing from inspiring English sources

Jim Carter, who plays butler Mr Carson, one of a handful of Downton stars in the running for acting Emmys on 23 September, says: "It's the age old thing, people like stories.

It's time to do the age old thing that everyone does once in a while, if not everyday; shopping.

"It's part of that age-old thing: never forget your roots.

The third was we didn't involve the age-old thing that has been used for years -- U.S. dollars".

"It's an age-old thing that if a song works on an acoustic guitar then you know it's going to work on anything," says Reynolds.

"It's that age-old thing of wanting that field just over the hedge," says Stephen King, a farming consultant from the Anderson Centre in Melton Mowbray.Of course, only those farmers who are selling their fields can cash in on the land-price boom, and most do not want to, especially now.

It's that age-old thing of men being macho," says Eaton. "Having a men's center is a very simple concept.

Appropriately for a report about a war steeped in euphemism ("conflict", "regime change", the "chaff" of David Kelly, "rendition" and of course "sexed-up"), Chilcot has given us some brand-new ways of describing some age-old things, notably "a very long way from success" (a cataclysm) and "presented with a certainty that was not justified" (you know what that means).

Being relaxed, the resisters say, is putting faith in the age old wisdom: you find the thing you're looking for just as you stop looking.

"That's a maddening old thing about old age".

That old thing?