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on the —— side of (a specified age)
(g) With modifying adjective. on the —— side of (a specified age): older, or younger, than (a specified age).See also right side n. 7b, on the wrong side of at wrong adj. 10e, on the sunny side of at sunny side n. and adj. Phrases 1, on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b.
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. i. 2 I attribute this Costivenesse..to his yeares, being on the worse side of forty.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 42 She's on the wrong Side of Thirty, if she be a Day.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain ii. 228 Get it [sc. information] from a French officer, or a priest, provided they are on the wrong side of forty... Avoid all acquaintance with either, on the right side of thirty.
1794 J. Collard Life James Molesworth Hobart I. 12 A gentleman, who, though on the worst side of sixty, had..become enamoured of a beautiful young damsel of twenty years of age.
1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 108 The younger being somewhat on the shady side of thirty.
1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vac. Tourists & Trav. 1860 24 A priest on the podgy side of forty.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 8 She was on the less enviable side of fifty.
1917 R. Cullum Triumph John Kars i. 10 He was a young man, a shade on the better side of thirty-five.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin xv. 199 Miss Larner seemed to be on the greying side of forty.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Mar. c3/1 Ms. Shepard and Mr. Wetherall,..it is safe to say, are both on the northern side of 50.
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