Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
Smart
Smart adjective - Being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance.
Both words in one sentence
- He had half of us blackmailed, he was old and smart and had a legion of spies behind him.
Source: "World of Cardboard" Speech -
Occurs in Rivers of London with DCI Nightingale (since he is over 100 years old) being the old, refined, gentleman cop, and DC Grant as the wet behind the ears, yet inexplicably smart, sarky, and mouthy new cop.
Source: Old Cop, Young Cop -
Similarly, Juliette can get away with a lot because she's beautiful, smart, and can put the fear into the Good Old Boys at her school.
Source: Comic Strip / 9 Chickweed Lane
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