on the shady side of

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English

Prepositional phrase

on the shady side of

  1. 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

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