10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAST ONE'S SELL-BY DATE»
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American English Compendium
... oil paraffin burner parboiling parcel pardon me parish lantern park parky (c)
part exchange parting Pass the Parcel (game) passage passing out (v) passing
out parade past one's sell-by date past one's work past praying for pastoralist
pastry ...
opportunity SLANG EXPRESSIONS FOR OLD getting on, long in the tooth, no
spring chicken, one foot in the grave, over the hill, past it, past one's sell-by date.
old boy cryptic abbreviated as OB. old-fashioned ml/ (5) dated, passe; (7) archaic;
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Stephen Curtis, Martin Manser, 2000
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Worlds Apart: Poems of Contrast
... the pleasure too, or just coming to terms with being 'past one's sell-by-date' on
turning seventy—all so vividly and humorously depicted in her ordered and
civilized world of suburban and city life. (Who has not wrestled with stubborn
trolleys, ...
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The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective
... the current three- year average in today's organisations.' (Will Hutton, Work
Foundation) Opinions on this vary widely. Hutton may be right about three years.
But the greater riskmaybe hanging on too long, remaining past one's sell-by date.
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Selected Papers from the 6th International Pragmatics ...
... N's metaphors cover traditional British values and institutions: the military (sign
up/on to, pull out of), navy/shipping (put some clear blue water between x andy),
the church (sing from a songsheet), and commerce (be past one's sell-by date).
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Zbig: The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski
There is always a danger, too, that with age one can think a bit off-key past one's
sell-by date. As Henry Kissinger has, I think, been flattered too successfully by the
Chinese, and as Brent Scowcroft was so temperamentally conservative a ...
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Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery is Transforming Our Lives
It offersa respite from ageing inan ageist society; it offers a temporary escape
route from the end-of-line identitiesthatcome with being past one's sell-by date.
Inthis final chapter,developing onthis theme, I wish to explore theselinks between
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“Le” Robert & Collins super senior: grand dictionnaire ...
... b (Comm) -> hard. soft \±\ coup > M'll-by date n (Comm) date t limite de vente »
to be past one's sell-by date * avoir fait son temps > sell-through ad| video
réservé à la vente »- sell back vt sep revendre (à la même personne etc) »» Sell
Off vt ...
Alain Duval, Kathleen Micham, 2000
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Bernardo Bertolucci: el cine como razón de vivir
The feeling of being past one's sell-by date and of transitive time, the conscience
of eternal flow, the notion of the ephemeral and the inevitable reality of death also
reappear, however, within a film as optimistic as Little Buddha, only here they ...
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