over the hill
No longer young
Over the hill means past one's prime, especially due to age.
The phrase pictures life as a journey where middle age is the peak—after that, you're headed downward: At forty, he joked he was over the hill.
Often used self-deprecatingly or in birthday humor, though it can be genuinely dismissive of older people's capabilities.
- has-beenFormer notable, now irrelevant
- geezerInformal term for old man
- no spring chickenPerson past their prime
- old fogeyOutdated, inflexible person
- washed-upNo longer successful
past one's prime · seen better days · elderly · middle-aged · long in the tooth · gray hair · outdated · golden years · old-timer · senior citizen · twilight years · obsolete · senior · antiquated · retirement · aged · past it · bygone
- birthdaysbirthday cake, birthday candle, birthday card, birthday wish, birthday song
- aging humorretirement jokes, senior moments, senior moment, old timer, geezer
- milestone agessweet sixteen, quinceanera, first birthday, sixteen, eighteen
- washed-uphas-been, past prime, played out, finished, done
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- age descriptorsaged, elderly, old, young, youthful
over the hillup-and-coming
Likely to succeed soon
rising star · on the rise · emerging · peaking · coming into one's own
over, hill, overcome, hills, hilly, overflow, overcoat, hilltop, overly