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my idiot of a brother that monster of a boss

de: mon imbécile de frère, ce monstre de patron

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age

n

1 the period of time that a person, animal, or plant has lived or is expected to live
the age of a tree, what age was he when he died?, the age of a horse is up to thirty years

2 the period of existence of an object, material, group, etc.
the age of this table is 200 years

a a period or state of human life
he should know better at his age, she had got beyond the giggly age

b (as modifier)
age group

4 the latter part of life

a a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era

b (cap. when part of a name)
the Middle Ages, the Space Age

6 generation
the Edwardian age

7 (Geology, palaeontol)

a a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics
the age of reptiles

b the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch

8 (Myth) any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages

9    often pl
Informal   a relatively long time
she was an age washing her hair, I've been waiting ages

10 (Psychol) the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age
See also → achievement age → mental age

11 ♦ age before beauty (often said humorously when yielding precedence) older people take precedence over younger people

12 ♦ of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years)
vb , ages, ageing, aging, aged

13 to grow or make old or apparently old; become or cause to become old or aged

14 to begin to seem older
to have aged a lot in the past year

15 (Brewing) to mature or cause to mature
(C13: via Old French from Vulgar Latin aetaticum (unattested), from Latin aetas, ultimately from aevum lifetime; compare aeon)

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of late, off pat, off-air, of a piece

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