act one's age

English

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Verb

act one's age (third-person singular simple present acts one's age, present participle acting one's age, simple past and past participle acted one's age)

1. (idiomatic) To behave in a manner appropriate to one's age.

   Synonym: behave one's age

2. (imperative, originally US) To behave in a mature manner; to avoid being childish.

   Act your age and stop fiddling with that pen – you’re showing us up.

Derived terms

• act one's age, not one's shoe size

Translations

to be mature and not childish

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 别没大没小的, 不要孩子气

• Finnish: käyttäytyä (kunnolla)
• German: sich seinem Alter entsprechend benehmen
• Latvian: uzvesties atbilstoši savam vecumam
• Portuguese: comporte-se
• Russian: вести́ себя́ соотве́тственно своему́ во́зрасту (vestí sebjá sootvétstvenno svojemú vózrastu)
• Spanish: comportarse (es)
• Thai: ทำตัวให้เป็นผู้ใหญ่