old as Methuselah

Worries about the advanced age of leading politicians are as old as Methuselah.

That's not a line Biden can use on Trump, of course, since Trump is also as old as Methuselah, but it shows that while you can't avoid the issue, it can be dealt with with humor and self-deprecation.

“Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir” is a tribute to a life snuffed out by a brutal man, a fractured judicial system and a patriarchy as old as Methuselah.

When I was a teen-ager, I spent a summer wandering the Highlands and islands of Scotland, looking at Neolithic ruins as old as Methuselah.

The various milkmen, grocers and butchers of the two former housewives have been praised to the skies or run into the ground so many times that in our imaginations they’ve grown as old as Methuselah; there’s absolutely no chance of anything new or fresh being brought up for discussion in the Annex.