come of age
1. to reach the age when you are an adult and are legally responsible for your behaviour.
So what of all the fifty-thousand youngsters who come of age this spring? Who will they be voting for?
They will have a party when their sons or daughters come of age.
Your son's children have now come of age.
Of all the kids who come of age this year, how many will actually vote?
2. something or someone that has come of age has reached full, successful, development.
After years of sophisticated mimicry, Japanese design has come of age.
The idea of equality in the workplace has come of age.
age before beauty
When this idiom is used, it is a way of allowing an older person to do something first, though often in a slightly sarcastic way. In Chinese, 长者优先.
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