be pushing (an age)
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To be approaching a particular age. I was never sore after my workouts until I was pushing 40.
See also: pushing
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be ˌpushing ˈ40, ˈ50, etc.
(informal) be nearly 40, 50, etc. years old: My grandmother’s pushing eighty but she’s as fit as ever.See also: pushing
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