old as the hills

The principle is as old as the hills – consider the white painted houses of the Mediterranean.

It’s a flavor combination as old as the hills — as long as the hills are somewhere in Southeast Asia.

While their tools of self-expression are TikTok and Instagram — and many parts of the live performances are captured with the performers’ smartphones or computers and projected at the back of the stage — their grievances are old as the hills: rage at their parents, unhappy loves, the impotence to change a world that refuses to accept them.

But the tactic is as old as the hills.

This is a misogynistic fear of female pollution of supposedly pure boyhood that is as old as the hills.