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You Can't Teach An Old Frog New Tricks

The full title of one of the most annoying Chips Challenge levels ever, featured in CCLP3.
Crap, You Can't Teach An Old Frog New Tricks is so damn hard!

to plug an old gauntlet 

to reference or do something that has not been referenced or done in a while
A: All your base are belong to us!!!
B: That's sure plugging an old gauntlet, A.

or

C: So I got back with Stacy last night.
D: Jesus, C. Way to plug an old gauntlet.

there was an old lady with skin patches who swallowed a horse 

A dark story for children that ends with the words "Perhaps She'll Die", with the exception of the very end where the old lady is finally dead.
Guy 1: Did you hear how there was an old lady with skin patches who swallowed a horse?

Guy 2: No what happened to her?

Guy 1: She died

Guy 2: Why did nobody help her?

Guy 1: She died after she ate the horse with patches and became deaf and her skin fell off

Guy 2: Wtf!

teach an old dog new tricks 

when someone does something for a long time and its hard to teach them new abilities.
you cant teach an old dog new tricks, my uncle never learned how to use his cellphone.

turning an old Volvo into a goat 

We're turning an old Volvo into a goat at Eunice's party tonight. I hear that Bob and Mortimer are participating.

thumb sucking at an old age 

when you still suck your thumb at an old age such as 5-11
me: I suck my thumb. Them: oh so u have a thumb sucking at an old age me: yes