forty-something

forty-something

1. adjective Of an unspecified age in one's forties. He looks like he's in his 60s, but he's really just forty-something.
2. noun A person who is in their forties. Usually used in the plural. I felt really out of place being so young at a party of forty-somethings.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • if (one) is a day
  • if he is a day
  • if he's, she's, etc. a day
  • be going great guns
  • if (one's) a day
  • if a day
  • if one’s a day
  • at heart
  • case
  • sex on a stick
References in periodicals archive
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A whole generation of thirty and forty-something lovers of nostalgia will also want to own the car they were too young for first time around.
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Bryant-Woolridge's latest book gets off to an uncomfortable start, as Pia Jamison, a forty-something New York music video executive with a biological dock ticking like a time bomb, scares off dates by immediately announcing her intentions to use them to get pregnant.
Weapons of Mass Seduction: A Novel to Unleash the Sensual You
You're seeing these graying forty-something Black men, tears in their eyes, throwing the Black power salute like the revolution has come back."
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If some of the ladies aren't trying to pick me up, they're trying to marry me off to their forty-something daughters or their preteen grandchildren.
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One of the few warm notes, a Beuys stag drawing, is a metaphor for the "grace" that, according to Assayas, his thirty- and forty-something characters seek.
Final cut
Forty-something years old, well-educated, adviser to corporate titans and government leaders, Dyson has never voted.
Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age
Throughout it all the dance is lush, full-bodied, and makes few concessions to the performers' "maturity"--from forty-something to sixty-something.
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Forty-something Rusty Jackson not only attends such events, she plans them.
Building a successful home-based business
A forty-something working mother, I've got too much to do and too little time to do it.
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Or maybe a group of forty-something guys who constantly relive their days of youth?
If it's February, it must be midseason time
Wes Bentley is his mentor James, a famous forty-something DJ full of alcohol and self-loathing.
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Kafka is a religiously non-observant forty-something bachelor who is such a stubborn, dedicated policeman that he's willing to risk his career to get an answer.
Behind God's Back
The forty-something brunette acquired the multi-exposure corner condo in July 2005 for $975,000, and this is hardly her first time riding the real estate bronco with the property: Digital resources show she's had the apartment on and off the sales market since the spring of 2010, when it was listed for $999,000.
Spiffy rental