snow on the rooftop
- idiom
- Informal
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canas
- She laughed and said, "Just because there's snow on the rooftop doesn't mean I'm slowing down!"
Examples
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Though there's snow on the rooftop, his eyes still flash with the energy of youth.
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She has a bit of snow on the rooftop these days.
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After the storm, real snow on the rooftop sparkled in the morning sunlight.
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Is that snow on the rooftop or just the lighting?
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She smiled and said, "Having a little snow on the rooftop just means I've gathered some wisdom over the years."
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With age comes experience, and I embrace the snow on the rooftop as a sign of my journey through life.
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Even though there's snow on the rooftop, he still feels young at heart and enjoys new adventures.
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'gray/white hair' is metaphorically built from 'snow' (white covering) appearing 'on the rooftop' (top of a structure mapped to the head). While a learner who knows the words can sometimes infer this figurative mapping, it is not a straightforward, literal composition and requires recognizing the rooftop→head metaphor and cultural usage, so the relation is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Snow on the rooftop may come from the simple picture of white snow resting on a house rooftop, like white hair resting on a person's head. So, the phrase is used to talk about 'gray hair' or 'old age'.