be a hundred years too early — meaning & examples

Meanings:

• 1.

  Global Englishinformal
  • To be far ahead of one's time; to appear, act, or exist much earlier than the historical or cultural conditions required for acceptance or success.

  Examples

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  • Her ideas about renewable energy were a hundred years too early; people just weren’t ready to listen back then.

    Sus ideas sobre energía renovable llegaron cien años antes; la gente simplemente no estaba lista para escucharlas en ese momento.

  • If you invent a smartphone today, it’s not a hundred years too early, but back in the 1980s, it definitely would have been.

    Si inventas un smartphone hoy, no es cien años demasiado temprano, pero en los años 80 definitivamente lo habría sido.

  • His avant-garde art was a hundred years too early for the conservative audience of his time.

    Su arte vanguardista llegó cien años antes para el público conservador de su época.