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be past your sell-by date

if someone is past their sell-by date, they are not wanted or useful any more because they are too old. There's plenty of time to have a baby, I'm not past my sell-by date yet.

See also: past

a blind date

an arranged meeting for two people who have never met each other before, in order to try to start a romantic relationship. I agreed to go on a blind date with one of Savita's ex-boyfriends.

See also: blind

a heavy date (American & Australian, humorous)

a planned meeting between two people who are very interested in having a romantic or sexual relationship. I think Carol has a heavy date - she's been in the bathroom for over an hour.

See also: heavy

out-of-date

1. old and therefore not useful or correct any more. I do have a road map but I suspect it's out-of-date. He claimed the report was inaccurate and based on out-of-date information. Some of her ideas are hopelessly out-of-date.

2. if a document is out-of-date, it cannot be used any more because the period of time when it could be used has ended. I found out my passport was out-of-date the day before I was due to travel. No one noticed that he was using an out-of-date permit.

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bring someone up to date

to provide someone with the most recent information or developments. Aides brought the governor up to date on the negotiations.

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bring something up to date

to change something to include the latest information or developments. He brought the book up to date by adding a new section on environmental policies.

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drop-dead date

a time by which something must be done. Glickman said the drop-dead date is December 31 — after that, no funds will be available.

See also: drop-dead

keep someone/something up to date

to provide the latest information to someone or for something. Every week I have to keep the lists up to date by adding or deleting names. The company has a computer wizard on the staff who keeps us up to date on the latest in electronics.

See also: keep

to date

to this time. I wrote to you two months ago, but to date I have not received a reply.