Meaning of OVER THE HILL - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English when we say someone is "over the hill" it means that they're old, and it's
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kind of a fun way to say that they're old.
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You would usually use this with a friend or someone in your family, maybe when they've
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turned 40 or maybe they're getting close to 50 years old.
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You might jokingly say to them that they're over the hill now.
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You can also say it about yourself, so sometimes when I do a lot of walking on one day and
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then the next day my legs are sore, I could say, "I'm really feeling over the hill today!"
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So you kind of get the sense of what this means, if life was a hill, you're kind of
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at the halfway point when start to go over that hill.
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So over the hill means old.
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