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out of season |
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out of season 1. not now available for sale. Sorry, oysters are out of season. We don't have any. Watermelon is out of season in the winter. 2. Fig. not now legally able to be hunted or caught. Are salmon out of season? I caught a trout out of season and had to pay a fine. out of season 1. not available fresh locally Asparagus is out of season now and really expensive. 2. at the time of year when something is not popular We like going to beach towns out of season. 3. at the time of year when hunting or fishing is not legal He got fined for killing a deer out of season. Opposite of: in seasonHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen. "I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it. They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being "so entirely out of season," and the "no thoroughfare of Lyme," and the "no expectation of company," had brought many apologies from the heads of the inn. |
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