Alternative form of old as the hills

(ice hockey) To retain possession of the puck by skillful skating and stickhandling without attempting to score, as a deliberate tactic intended to use up time.

(US, slang) to urinate or defecate; to go to the bathroom

Because of; normally used with a positive connotation, though it can be used sarcastically.

(idiomatic) To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity.

(idiomatic) In the process of doing something considered criminal or otherwise wrong; used to emphasize the eye-witness evidence.

Trapped, cornered; discommoded, discomfited; in a quandary.

(intransitive) to wash up dirty crockery (plates and dishes) and cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons)

(UK) Any ordinary person; everyman. / (UK, law) Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; everyman.

It is preferable to be cautious in one's choices and actions than to act recklessly and suffer afterwards.