make old bones

To live to be very old (that is, to live long enough to have "old bones.") I think those of us here who are making old bones would agree that this policy flies in the face of what our country is supposed to stand for.

make old bones

live to an advanced age.

See also: bone, make, old

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See also:

bolt bucket
lang
auld
auld lang syne
bucket of rust
any old
be (as) old as dirt
be (as) old as the hills
mossback
of old

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