sell-by date | Idiomator

Meaning: Thefinaldate on which aperishableproductshould be sold to the public.; (idiomatic,by extension)Used to indicate that something, or someone, is old andout of date.2007March, William Keegan, “As Blair contemplates the hereafter, Britain must endure a life in limbo”, inThe Guardian Online:Tony Blair insists on remaining in office well past hissell-by date- yet he can afford to go.September 9, 2017-Schlock MercenaryManifold: This is not ateam,Petey. This is just another mass grave.Ewin: Eeew. What's thesell-by dateon that manifold? I think it's gone bad.2021January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, inRail, page 8:"They have gone past theirsell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have.

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.

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