middle-age spread
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A cartoon on the front of the shows a man at breakfast, reading a story that urges him to "eat more butter" and telling his wife that "middle-age spread is good for you".
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2013
The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread.
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Can an erstwhile avant-garde development settle comfortably into maturity and still avoid middle-age spread?
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Doctors at Tokyo's First National Hospital have discovered one way to prevent middle-age spread: jungle living.
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In recent years, though, Pan Am has been overtaken by symptoms of middle-age spread.
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