| Unlikely learner of new tricks |
Thomas Joseph |
11 Oct 2025 |
| Disney's Yeller, for one |
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| One who's past the age of learning, in a saying |
LA Times Daily |
28 May 2025 |
| Trick-y student, so to speak? |
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| Ancient mariner, missing sea, who can't acquire novel skills |
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| It can't be taught new tricks (2 wds.) |
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| Senior person (inf) (3,3) |
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| You can't teach it new tricks (2 wds.) |
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| One whose trick-learning years are behind them |
LA Times Daily |
23 Feb 2024 |
| One with ingrained habits, proverbially |
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| Geezer |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Aug 2023 |
| Unteachable sort, in a saying |
New York Times |
08 Jan 2023 |
| Proverbial nonlearner |
Newsday |
17 Oct 2021 |
| Hard one to teach, in a saying |
New York Times |
05 Aug 2021 |
| One can't learn new tricks, it's said |
Universal |
07 Feb 2021 |
| New tricks non-learner |
Newsday |
28 Oct 2020 |
| Poor learner, according to a proverb |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Oct 2020 |
| Slow learner? |
Canadiana |
29 Jun 2020 |
| Unteachable one, in a proverb |
Eugene Sheffer |
13 Mar 2020 |
| Set-in-ways one, supposedly |
Newsday |
09 Jun 2019 |
| Proverbial nonlearner |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Aug 2017 |
| One who can't learn new tricks, they say |
New York Times |
26 Feb 2017 |
| Nonlearner, in a proverb |
USA Today |
19 Jan 2017 |
| Hard one to teach, proverbially |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
13 Jan 2017 |
| Hard one to teach, proverbially |
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| One who can't learn new tricks, they say |
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| One resistant to new tricks |
Wall Street Journal |
07 Jul 2016 |
| Not a prospect for learning new tricks |
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| Unteachable one, it's said |
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| Proverbial nonlearner |
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| One with difficulty learning new tricks, supposedly |
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| Resister of new tricks |
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| Proverbial fogy |
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| Proverbial fogy |
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| It's hard to teach one new tricks, so they say |
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| New trick resister, supposedly |
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| Pooch beyond trick-learning years, supposedly |
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| Pooch beyond trick-learning years, supposedly |
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| It's hard to teach one new tricks, so they say |
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| Proverbial learning-disabled one |
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| Proverbial learning-disabled one |
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| Proverbial nonlearner |
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| Nonlearner, proverbially |
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| New tricks non-learner |
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| Stephen Foster's "___ Tray" |
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| Tray, for one. |
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