to make old bones
Campos semánticos:
- Fuente de la expresión
- Diccionario Reverso
- Estructura completa
- to make old bones
- Variantes
- to get up in years, to be advanced in years
- Definición
- To grow old.
- Contexto
- At this the ladies became suddenly serious. Ninety years old! The deuce, there wasn´t one of them, as Lucy loudly declared, who would live to that age. They were all done for. Besides, Nana said she didn’t want to make old bones; it wouldn’t be amusing.
- Tipo de fuente
- book
- Autor
- Edward Vizetelly traduciendo Nana de Zola
- Título de la fuente
- Nana
- Año
- 2013
- Web
- Google Books
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente