"there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace" meaning in English

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Proverb

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  1. (often humorous) Even a person in his or her senior years, with gray hair, can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual energy. Tags: humorous, often Categories (topical): Age Synonyms: there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley Related terms: snow on the rooftop, there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle Translations (older people can still have ambition and energy, especially sexual): a vén kecske is megnyalja a sót (Hungarian)
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