this side of

Idioms  

1. Short of, before, as in I think she's still this side of forty, or I doubt they'll arrive this side of noon. [First half of 1400s]

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Example Sentences

On this side of the pond, the 10-year Treasury note yield rose 10 basis points on the week to 4.38%, the highest level since July.

From Barron's

The rock that formed this side of the gap was not, as she had thought, a part of the cave itself, but merely a tongue of stone that jutted from the earth floor.

From Literature

I felt a small wave of panic—the only person I knew this side of the Atlantic, now leaving.

From Literature

Only Byrne’s flashes of humor and desperately flailing humanity keep her on this side of monstrous.

From Los Angeles Times

“Half a century later,” Ms. Caroli writes, “she described the indelible effect of her first exposure to slum housing. ‘The steam and noise and smell and congestion were too much for one new to this side of life.’”

From The Wall Street Journal