| My pinball skills were no longer celebrated, I was a has-been, a thing of the ancient past. |
| Unlike the Parliament, the Commission is not elected, but appointed by the member-states, and is frequently used as a sinecure for retired or has-been politicians. |
| They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis. |
| It had become what moviedom dreads most: a has-been. |
| By the end of the year, they may be calling me a has-been and roasting McRae for getting me on the team. |
| 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. |
