teach an old dog new tricks

teach an old dog new tricks

• 教老狗学新把戏，教姥姥学吹打，让上年纪的人接受新事物，使守旧的人接受新方法(或新思想)；枉费心机，雕琢朽木

• scolions
• quinaphthol
• land of the golden fleece
• thick with
• flight decks
• agriculturalist
• epochs
• split pulley
• blow sb out
• have every chance of(doing sth)
• all-hid
• orocline
• knock someone sideways
• logarithmic function
• agony columns
• rimlands
• hedge fund
• Pekinese
• alta fescue
• tacker
• on the basis of sth
• Italianizations
• earner
• set up type
• break loose
• an iron hand（或fist）in a velvet glove
• apposing
• health service
• nariss
• productionized
• annectant
• epanaphoral
• bread-and-butter letters
• outclearing
• inscribe in
• lecherousnesses
• silentious
• Heilungkiang
• nonflow system
• lethality
• Karol
• simple leaves
• blue moon
• as naked as the day I was born
• by (the) force of
• Mixodectidae
• Abul kasim
• a spot of
• ephyra
• regularising
• thalassocratic
• peccadillo
• language of flowers
• optical coupling
• for the life of me
• space power systems
• the Kirk
• flowable
• Marcq-St-Hilaire method
• esotropia
• roturier
• think the same of
• stock dividend
• daybeds
• to be rabid in one's hatred of
• go off at half cock
• tactic
• ablates
• pedantry
• aeronomist
• backstabbing
• Russophobes
• spoonworms
• pudendal
• enchroite
• landing craft
• comptroller
• group printing
• solmizate
• Federal Labor Relations Authority
• corticotrophins
• larvaceas
• caprices
• nipped-in
• gun dog
• snow gum
• idle shop
• Fugger family
• namaskars
• Borrman effect
• do out
• horse brass
• overdare
• eudiometry
• enterprise zones
• apparattuses
• spotters
• eroticising
• nimblewitted
• hydraucone