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English
Phrase
the wrong side of
- Older than (the stated age, typically a decade).
She looked to be the wrong side of forty.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:Two weary, worn-out men, one of them on the wrong side of forty, a rocking-stone to take off from, a trembling point of rock some few feet across to land upon, and a bottomless gulf to be cleared in a raging gale!
- Used in various other expressions to refer to an inimical or disfavoured condition.
- the wrong side of the tracks, the wrong side of the law, the wrong side of history
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