old-age pensioner

In a column entitled, “NATO on Viagra,” foreign policy wonk John Feffer said the alliance’s new status as an old-age pensioner should serve as a subtle cue for it to step aside.

Ironically, most of the music-business people in LA are so antiseptic they think he's like an old-age pensioner, but people who observe from afar know how important he is.

A white dwarf is the stellar equivalent of a shrunken but feisty old-age pensioner.