has-been
过来人,过往,已过,过气
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- : a person or thing that is no longer effective, successful, popular, etc.
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Examples
Aksyonov has great fun inventing a culturally pureed lexicon for his might-have-been cosmopolitan Russians.
Let me say, flat out, that Harold Conrad was the single most happening, been-everywhere/done-everything cat I ever met.
Compared to al-Qaeda, the Russians were seen as has-beena – albeit nuclear-armed has-beens.
Cis Male (see also Cis Man, Cisgender Male, Cisgender Man); a male who identifies as a man/has a masculine gender identity.
The conventional wisdom around Davos is that they are, if not the has-beens, then at least the disappointment of the decade.
"He has-kept it—five years—unopened," Mona said in broken phrases scarce above a whisper.
I'd a-been gone long before now if I hadn't had to go over town arter some things I need.
No poorest man on earth would change places with this man-that-might-have-been, for his time draws nigh and his end is perdition.
His dreams were ended, the "might-have-been" would never be, but he knew that there was peace in that little breast at last.
Mr. Anderson—he's below-has crinkly noctagons, and one wouldn't believe the difference.