on the shady side of
English
Prepositional phrase
- Beyond (a specified age); older than.
- a man on the shady side of fifty
- 1962, Joseph Gallegly, Footlights on the Border:
- Alice Marriot, a personator of male characters, who was on the shady side of forty at the time of her Galveston visit—and who had lost the “mold of form” of her early years
References
- “shady”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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