teach an old dog new tricks in a sentence
Examples
- "They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks; that certainly showed that age didn't make any difference ."
- Ray Stata and Alexander d'Arbeloff are proof that the cliche is wrong : You can teach an old dog new tricks.
- Though that doesn't strictly imply perverseness, it's more often pejorative than " you can't teach an old dog new tricks ".
- It was long ago established that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but can you teach a new dog old tricks?
- The only way you can teach an old dog new tricks and the only way to get you out of it is hard work.
- "It's kind of hard to teach an old dog new tricks, " said Hernandez, who signed with the Atlanta Braves in mid-January after attracting little interest from other teams.
- For you youngsters out there, that's what happens when one gets older . . . " much " older . ( sigh ) yes, it does get harder to teach an old dog new tricks.
- The official daily Al-Iraq reacted with skepticism, saying " the dog's tail will never be straight " _ the Arabic version of the English-language maxim " you can't teach an old dog new tricks ."
- "Labor would like us to believe he ( Blair ) would defend Britain's interests abroad . . . ( but ) you can't teach an old dog new tricks, " commented Simon Whitehead, a Conservative press officer.
- You might not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but as Stockton and other codgers like him have proved, you can teach one how to transform those old tricks into a new source of revenue.