adj. 已过壮年的
too old to be useful
同义词： overage / overaged / superannuated
He doesn't take kindly to suggestions that he is over the hill.
他不爱听别人说他在走下坡路。
It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Del Norte.
我开车越过小山去德尔诺特的那天下大雨又刮大风。
A hawk hovered over the hill.
一只鹰在小山的上空翱翔。
Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill studied the eating habits of American children over a 30-year period.
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This competition between the states holds out the prospect of remaking the economic and political map of America, as new economic state powers pursuing pro-growth policies arise, replacing the over-the-hill, declining, economic state powers pursuing the blind alleys of sterile, defunct, redistribution policies of the past.
FORBES: Bobby Jindal Seeks Rich State Status With Income Tax Phaseout
The failures of traded quarterbacks have far outweighed the successes, especially with over-the-hill QBs such as Brett Favre, who struggled down the stretch in his one season with the New York Jets, and Donovan McNabb, who struggled in his only season with the Washington Redskins, and later with the Minnesota Vikings.
Nobody has yet walked up to the 232-kg (510-lb) man-mountain and told him he is over the hill.