the wrong side of forty

He has been the world’s top-ranked player for two years already while Anand’s results have tailed off, as those of players on the wrong side of forty tend to do.

Simpson, though on the wrong side of forty, well off and eminently lovable, was unmarried.

As a man of experience, just on the wrong side of forty, it was not difficult to see the cards each held.

It’s sort of like me buying slim-fit jeans: On the surface, I might look mod; in reality, I’m a guy on the wrong side of forty.

"You do not think the term strong enough? but when a man gets on the wrong side of forty it is, I think, as much as he can expect."