[General] Meaning: on the upside of her fifties

[danetch]

What does it mean when a person is considered to be "on the upside of her fifties"?

 

[bhaisahab]

What does it mean when a person is considered to be "on the upside of her fifties"?

I've never heard it but I would take it to mean that she is over fifty years old.

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never heard it either but my guess is the same as bhaisahab's.

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forums, danetch.

We can help you better if you give us the context in which you encountered this expression.

Rover

 

[danetch]

I've never heard it but I would take it to mean that she is over fifty years old.

At first I thought it meant she was slightly over fifty years old (fifty years five months), but then I started to wonder if she was in her early (51-53) or in her late (57-59) fifties.

Welcome to the forums

Thank you.

We can help you better if you give us the context in which you encountered this expression.

I’ve encountered it in a book written by American author. A young woman thinks of her father’s secretary as “a former teacher and widow on the upside of her fifties”. I don’t understand if the woman in question is supposed to be fifty years several month years old or, for example, she is fifty-three years old.

 

[emsr2d2]

The only thing we can say fairly certainly is that she is over fifty. I would assume, given the sentence, that perhaps he meant "in her late fifties, so perhaps fifty-seven to fifty-nine.