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View synonyms for over the hill

over the hill



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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.
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Example Sentences

Alan Arkin also provides an award-worthy turn as Lester Siegel, a sardonic, over-the-hill movie mogul who helps in the mission.

Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill has just told me that we will have some prayers with his pipe a few days from now.

Tail-Feathers-Coming-over-the-Hill has many battle scars on different parts of his body.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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