1736 Canting Dictionary / O / OLD-Dog at it [adj]
good or expert.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Old Dog At It in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).