| 单词 | on the wrong side of |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the wrong side of e. on the wrong side of, older than (a specified age); upwards of. (Cf. shady adj. 2b.) ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > older than an age on the wrong side of1664 on the shady side of1807 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty. 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccl. 306 An Old Man on the Wrong-side of Four~score. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 282. ⁋3 They had..passed their Prime, and got on the wrongside of Thirty. 1773 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. 276 He is on the wrong side of an Elderly man, but seems to have good Health. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xx. 341 Am I..to look like a methodist parson on the wrong side of forty. 1895 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 394 A good-looking woman, a little on the wrong side of thirty, perhaps. < as lemmas |
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