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live to a ripe old age

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live to a ripe old age
to live until you are very old. Both his grandparents lived to a ripe old age.
See also: age, live, old, ripe
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Traditionally the Palauans live to a ripe old age and have a very healthy lifestyle.
Western diseases reach newest nation by Australian Nursing Journal
In fact, it's very possible that a tree growing old on one spot would not live to a ripe old age somewhere else.
Trees, environment, and genes: in the evolutionary battle to survive ... by Moll, Gary / American Forests
At last, an answer became clear to the evolutionary puzzle of why postreproductive human females, alone of all the primates, live so long after menopause: Women live to a ripe old age to make sure their grandchildren eat.
The grandma hypothesis: wallpaper she ain't by Callahan, Sidney / Commonweal
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