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of a certain age en · ADP

Perhaps a calque of French d'un certain âge.

(euphemistic, of a person) Middle-aged or older.
- Women of a certain age / They learn to rely and your job is responses / Having played the mating game 1989, Graham Lyle, Albert Hammond, “I Don't Wanna Lose You”, in Foreign Affair, performed by Tina Turner:
- a lady of a certain age
- Now that I'm of a certain age, I need reading glasses to see up close.
- Near-synonyms: (indeterminate) getting on in years, on in years, long in the tooth; (past middle age) older, senior, elderly, geriatric; see also Thesaurus:elderly
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see of, a, certain, age: belonging to some particular specified age range.
- All able-bodied men of a certain age were subject to conscription by royal decree.