Meaning of dust off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To remove dust from.
   transitive
2. To use something after a long time without it.
   figuratively, transitive
3. To jilt or desert (a person).
   slang, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.”

“"If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."”

“For the Pleurotus mycelium to digest the used cigarette butts it might have to dust off an unused metabolic move.”

“Red Sox by the Numbers A “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.””

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