| My pinball skills were no longer celebrated, I was a has-been, a thing of the ancient past. |
| By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team. |
| I still get invites but I feel like a dinosaur and a bit of a has-been now. |
| The next day, at the audition, Betty has to act the same scene with a lecherous has-been, and suddenly she does it with surprising lubricity. |
| I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. |
| As a writer Shepard is not nearly in the land of the has-been. |