he is an old dog at it

См. также в других словарях:

• old dog for a hard road —    This expression means that experience is invaluable when one is faced with a difficult task.     The case calls for an experienced lawyer an old dog for a hard road …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• old dog for hard road —    This expression means that experience is invaluable when one is faced with a difficult task.     The case calls for an experienced lawyer, an old dog for a hard road …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• Flight of the Old Dog — Infobox Book name = Flight of the Old Dog title orig = translator = image caption = author = Dale Brown illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = subject = Air Combat, Espionage genre = publisher = Dutton… …   Wikipedia

• you can't teach an old dog new tricks — old dogs and old people do not like to change or learn, die hard    Our senior employees don t like computer training you can t teach an old dog new tricks …   English idioms

• Old Dog Haven — OldDog Haven logo A walk in the field at Home Base OldDog Haven is an …   Wikipedia

• you can't teach an old dog new tricks — you can’t teach an old dog new tricks informal phrase used for saying that it is very difficult to make someone do something in a new way when they have been doing it their own way for a long time Thesaurus: habits and habitual behavioursynonym… …   Useful english dictionary

• you can’t teach an old dog new tricks — 1530 J. FITZHERBERT Husbandry (ed. 2) G1v The dogge must lerne it when he is a whelpe, or els it wyl not be; for it is harde to make an olde dogge to stoupe. 1636 W. CAMDEN Remains concerning Britain (ed. 5) 300 It is hard to teach an old dog… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• There's Life in the Old Dog Yet — Produced by Phil Coulter, who wrote the title track, Ronnie Drew recorded this album of songs about growing old shortly before being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2006, an irony which was commented on a few months later by both men on The Late… …   Wikipedia

• you can't teach an old dog new tricks — ► you can t teach an old dog new tricks proverb you cannot make people change their ways. Main Entry: ↑dog …   English terms dictionary

• There's life in the old dog yet. — humorous something that you say which means that although someone is old, they still have enough energy to do things. I may be 90 but there s life in the old dog yet …   New idioms dictionary

• you can't teach an old dog new tricks — It is very hard or almost impossible to train an older person to acquire some new skill. A proverb. * /You ll never teach your grandfather how to do his income tax on a personal computer. You can t teach an old dog new tricks./ …   Dictionary of American idioms