very old

"It was a decent sparring session between a tough, young novice and a very old but once great man, Mike Tyson," Bunce said.

But in the past fortnight, the campaign has moved into new areas, or rather, very old ground.

"He was very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild croc," the post said.

To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, “natural” slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom.

Of course, this is a very old narrative that goes back to the early days of colonial America, when white male European settlers were the protectors of white womanhood against the dangerous Native American “savages.”