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thing of the past

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a thing of the past
something that does not exist or happen any more. Your friendly local telephone operator may be a thing of the past, but you still can dial “0” and talk to a real person if you need to. Unfortunately, torture is not a thing of the past.
See also: past, thing


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For long ambition has been like an ancient memory to me, some glorious day recalled from my springtime, so much a thing of the past that I must make a railway journey to revisit it as to look upon the pleasant fields in which that scene was laid.
He was well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have remained.
So you consider your childhood a thing of the past, do you, young lady?
 
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