over the hill

1. 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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Johnson said this was a low moment, describing how he could see "the cavalry coming over the hill" - the vaccines which would eventually turn the tide of the pandemic, but which had not arrived quickly enough to prevent more disruption to children's lives.

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Was Hamilton over the hill, some wondered after qualifying?

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"I was a bit disappointed it was a rolling start because I thought that would take away some opportunity but when I was that close I knew I was going to lift a little bit less than Lando did. A bit lively over the hill but then the slipstream helped me out."

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Everybody wants good news on Daly, but if it's bad news there is a cavalry coming over the hill in the shape of Kinghorn and Keenan and a cast of others.

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A guy standing near Kozicki had a radio scanner, and they listened as a spartan voice counted down: Ten, nine, eight, seven … Over the hill, where the rocket was on the pad, all was dark.

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