DESCRIBING PEOPLE AND THINGS - Age Flashcards
No Spring Chicken
No longer Young
Getting old in years
getting old
Bright young things
Young, enthusiastic , fashionable or ambitious people
Wet behind the ears
Young and inexperinced
As old as the hills
Extremely old
Acting his age
Behaving in a way appropriate to his age
Ribe old age
very old age
Tender age
Very young age
Feel my age
Am conscious of being older
In the Prime of my life
At my best; healthy and successful
Knee-high to a grasshoper
Very young
Long in tooth
Old
Twilight Years
The lst years of someone’s life
Over the hill
Old; psat my best years
Young at heart
Youthful, despite being old
That awkward age
The period of adolescence when people feel very self-conscious
Improve my age
get better as they get older
Come of my age
Reach maturity, or have the same legal rights as adults
Great age
Very old age
Bridges the generation gap
Appeals to people of all ages
Losing touch with
No longer being in contact with
A soulmate
The perfect person to be a friend or partner
Kept in touch with
Continued to be in contact with
A mutual friend
A shared friend of two people
Get on like a house on fire
get along extremely well; have a very good relationship
Drifted apart
Slowly become less friendly or close to each other
Start a family
Have children
Immediate family
Close family, such as parents, sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters
Bringing up
Teaching a child how to behave
Extended family
Wider family, such as grandparents, cousins, nephews, and nieces
Runs in our family
Is a commen feature in our
Struck up a friendship with
Become friends with
Hit it off
Became friends very quickly
A fair-weather friend
A friend who deserts you when you have difficlties
Got off on the wrong foot
Started our relationship badly
A chip off the old block
Very similer to someone in his family
A family friend
Someone who has known your family for some time
The black sheep of the family
Someone who brings shame to the family or is the odd one in the family
A family heirloom
An object that has been passed down through the generations of a family
A close-knit family
A loyal and supporative
bears a striking resemblance
looks extremely similer
the spitting image of
almost identical to
getting thin on top
going bald
five o’clock shadow
the beginning a beard
looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth
looks innocent, like she wouldn’t do anything bad
like to peas in a pod
extremely similer to each other
all skin and bones
too thin
looked like she’d seen a ghost
looked very scared or shocked
looked like a drowned rat
was very wet
keeping up appearnces
pretending that things are going well
looked the part
was dressed in the right way
looked like a million bucks
looked extremely glamorous
immaculately groomed
elegantly dressed and well presented
never has a hair out of place
is extremely neat and well groomed
blue blood
is desended from important people or aristocarcy
a pillar of the community
an important or well-respected person
the wrong side of the tarcks
the wrong social background or part of town
was born with a silver spoon in his mouth
was born into a wealthy family
a highflier
a very talented and succeful person
didn’t have two pennies to rub togather
were very poor
