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What does over the hill mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word over the hill? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (of a person, idiomatic) Old, past the prime of life.
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Driving blind, he came over the hill to find his ball on a gorse-infested slope.
The curl of smoke twisted through the tall grass as the hunter stared over the hill tops.
We passed the trident, crossed over the hill and tumbled down a moraine the far side, our feet slipping on the loose rock.
Many of his players are over the hill, and others that he has brought in are just not good enough to prosper at the very highest level.
A rider can arrive at the start of the Tour under-form, but not over the hill.
At an age when most batsmen are over the hill, he is producing some of the best batting of his career.

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