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    This document discusses the different stages of human life and common phrases used to describe a person's age. It outlines ages from infancy through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age. Examples include phrases such as "coming of age", "over the hill", "in her prime", "on the wrong side of forty", and "kicked the bucket" which describe stages of aging and relative ages between people.

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    This document discusses the different stages of human life and common phrases used to describe a person's age. It outlines ages from infancy through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age. Examples include phrases such as "coming of age", "over the hill", "in her prime", "on the wrong side of forty", and "kicked the bucket" which describe stages of aging and relative ages between people.

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    This document discusses the different stages of human life and common phrases used to describe a person's age. It outlines ages from infancy through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age. Examples include phrases such as "coming of age", "over the hill", "in her prime", "on the wrong side of forty", and "kicked the bucket" which describe stages of aging and relative ages between people.

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    AGE The Seven Ages of Man

    36 years of age a grown-up a juvenile delinquent a newborn baby a pensioner (an old age pensioner OAP) a teenager a toddler aged 22 / over 21 all those in the 9 -11 age group an adult an ageing playboy an elderly lady an infant an offspring (rather formal) approaching middle-age

    as old as the hills* at the age of 26 becoming senile beginning to look/feel one's age by the age of 26 I will have graduated from college coming up to school age congratulations on your coming of age four next birthday growing old gracefully heading for retirement he'll soon be pushing up daisies* he's aged a lot lately he's getting on in years he's got one foot in the grave

    he's over the hill* he's thirtyish he's turned thirty I have turned 19 I'm 18 (years old) I'm an eighteen-year-old girl I'm twice your age, young man! in her mid-twenties in her second childhood in her seventy-fifth year in his late forties in his prime in his youth maturity not a youngster any more not as young as she was

    old age comes to all of us on the wrong side of forty one of the older generation she's coming up to seventy she's kicked the bucket she's older than she looks she's passed away/ passed on she's still got her girlish sense of humour still a minor still playing his schoolboy tricks the agonies of adolescence

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