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Idiom

old enough to vote

Meaning

Old; decrepit (said especially of an inanimate object).

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“My laptop is old enough to vote.”

“I should probably replace this car, as it is definitely old enough to vote.”

“The machinery in the factory is old enough to vote, yet the company refuses to invest in modern equipment.”

Examples

simple

“My laptop is old enough to vote.”

contextual

“I should probably replace this car, as it is definitely old enough to vote.”

complex

“The machinery in the factory is old enough to vote, yet the company refuses to invest in modern equipment.”

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