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Social sciences → Etymology → Phrase origins → Phrase origins, I - P → Phrases, L
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  • johngo
    As horses age the gums recede progressively from the teeth. A horse that is long in the tooth is an old horse, hence the transferred meaning to people. Things long in the tooth are old.
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