put years on

Meaning

1. put years on sb

   to make sb feel or look older

In the movies · 2

• ...to put 20 years into 38 boxes.Sex and the City2008
• You can have them put away for years on a charge like this.Hello, Dolly!1969

From the same entry

• man, woman, car, of the year
• not in a hundred, years
• take years off
• year after year
• year by year
• the year dot
• year in, year out
• year of grace
• year on year
• of advanced years
• declining years
• donkey's years