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over the hump

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over the hump 
1. Fig. over the hard part; past the midpoint. Things should be easy from now on. We finally got over the hump. When you get over the hump, life is much better.
2. intoxicated on drugs. Harry is over the hump now. He is stoned. This stuff makes you sick at first. Then suddenly you are over the hump and floating.
See also: hump

over the hump
past the most difficult or dangerous part of something I hope power companies will have enough electricity to get over the hump of seasonal demand. The other team got off to a big lead at the start, and we just couldn't quite get over the hump.
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Only this week I saw a police pursuit programme on TV in which a yob drove a stolen car flat out over the humps, virtually writing it off.
Former West Dyke Road resident Brian Earl today said the noise from traffic over the humps forced him out of the bungalow he had lived in for 14 years.
Ian said: "My wife and I couldn't get to sleep with all the noise from lorries going over the hump.
 
 
 
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