The date printed on perishable goods indicating the last day a retailer is recommended to display or sell the product.
A labeling term used by manufacturers or sellers to guide retailers about the acceptable period for sale before quality may decline.
2.
General Englishinformal
A figurative term for the point after which something is considered no longer useful, relevant, fashionable, or effective; often used in the phrase 'past its sell-by date.'
Examples:
EN: What about the sell-by date on these?
ES: ¿Y la caducidad de esto?
EN: Past its sell-by date.
ES: Ya caducadas.
EN: It's past the damned sell-by date!
ES: ¡Mierda, es para el veinte!
EN: Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1.
ES: Cada día compro una lata de piña con fecha de caducidad del 1 de Mayo.
EN: I'd stand for an hour in the supermarket, waiting for them to knock down the price of food past its sell-by date.
ES: Parada horas en el supermercado,... esperando la baja de precio... de los alimentos pasados de fecha.
EN: Deliberately buy yogurts that are past their sell-by date so they can complain to Anne Robinson, or video their pets being knocked unconscious by garden swings in the hope that the producer of "You've Been Framed"
ES: Buenas noches a todos.
EN: If we're past the sell-by date of a yogurt, people go:
ES: Por ejemplo, ven la fecha de caducidad de un yogur y dicen:
EN: Well, it's a museum, Troy. It's full of stuff long past its sell-by date.
ES: El Museo está lleno de cosas de hace mucho tiempo.
EN: Yo_I want to watch the sell-by date on these things.
ES: Uno debe mirar la fecha de vencimiento en estas cosas.
EN: It doesn't have a sell-by date, does it?
ES: No tenia un día de venta, no?
EN: Look at the sell-by date.
ES: Mira la fecha de venta.
EN: It's past its sell-by date.
ES: Ha prescrito.
EN: -Because they have to. Every healthy relationship between a gay man and a straight woman has a sell-by date.
ES: Cualquier relación saludable entre un gay una mujer heterosexual tiene fecha de caducidad.
EN: Most of them well beyond their sell-by date.
ES: La mayoría caducaron hace mucho.
EN: Let's see if there's a sell-by date on these plums.
ES: Veamos si tiene fecha de elaboración por acá abajo.