寄よる年とし波なみ

expression

advancing age; the toll of growing older

Set phrase often used with verbs like 勝てない or には勝てない to express that one cannot fight the effects of aging. Conveys a sense of gradual, inevitable decline.

• 寄よる年とし波なみには勝かてず、最さい近きん疲つかれが取とれにくくなった。

  I can't fight the advancing years; lately I don't recover from fatigue as easily.

• 父ちちも寄よる年とし波なみで、以い前ぜんのように走はしれなくなった。

  My father, too, has been slowed by age and can't run like he used to.