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Small bird seen by old man over the hill
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past it
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a. (context informal English) No longer capable, not as effective as previously.
Usage examples of past it.
When he did not announce the show at once, I glanced around and saw that, while he had the mike in his hand, he was staring past it at the door, and looking considerably upset.
All he remembers about the city he's in is a display of popular wedding stationery -- 20% off -- which, as he walked past it, seemed for a moment to merge indistinguishably with the cigarette ends, burger cartons and supermarket receipts on the pavement: so that for a moment everything became illegible to him, because the floor of the display window and the street, the inside and the outside, were only extensions of each other.
He could not find it, and was beginning to be sure that he had reached past it, when he touched it with one toe - then he had both feet firmly planted on it.
He pushed the thought away impatiently and looked out toward the line of water (nearer now) and past it to where his own house must be.
When they drove past it on the motorway, he used to fantasise that his parents were about to turn their vehicle towards the car park and surprise him, say the boot was full of secretly packed luggage and they were heading off for a fortnight.
This was, of course, the remains of the Kitchener Ironworks - he had ridden past it but had never thought to actually explore it, and he had never heard any kids saying that they had.