Over the Hill
Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4012
From the idea of a life as a hill climbed and then descended, in English since the 1600s. American military slang narrowed it in the 1900s: over the hill also meant gone absent, having walked off the base.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.