has-been - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • age: If you've decided to pass Manfred by as an aging has-been that's your problem.

Adjective modifier

  • washed-up: Not the bald, poncey, overweight washed-up has-been of today, but the funny, sometime action-man of the 70s and early 80s.
  • overweight: Not the bald, poncey, overweight washed-up has-been of today, but the funny, sometime action-man of the 70s and early 80s.

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