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Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Meaning: older people find it hard to learn new things
How to use in a sentence: Mary tried to show her grandpa how to load music into an IPOD.  After trying to understand it for one hour grandpa finally said,  "You can't teach an old dog new tricks.  I'll just play my CDs."

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