Old Blade (An).
“Un vieux routier” (an old stager), meaning one up to snuff. (See Snuff.)
“Un vieux routier” (an old stager), meaning one up to snuff. (See Snuff.)
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.