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over the hill
Idioms and Phrases
Past one's prime, as in I'm a little over the hill to be playing contact sports . This term, alluding to a climber who has reached a mountaintop and is now descending, has been used figuratively for the decline caused by aging since the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
Since his cast of characters is, in his words, “over the hill” — adult men ranging from rusty to out of shape, in a recreational league where the stakes are as low as they can be — Lund could focus on conveying the feeling of community by embracing a bit of chaos and capturing the action in wide shots.
With the same thought in mind, Vanessa Abbott, a film editor who lives in Calabasas, popped over the hill Thursday for lunch.
After walking over the hill, this cousin by the last name of Walton made his way south to Arkansas and created an empire based on the profit from selling those pigs at market.
Officials did not conduct soil testing or air testing at Canyon, which was over the hill from the fire zone.
“You had a better view there than any of the multimillion-dollar houses over the hill. Where we lived, it’s the closest you could get to any kind of middle-class intro to the Palisades.”
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