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dust off
Pitch a baseball dangerously close to the batter's head, as in I'm sure he dusted him off on purpose . [ Slang ; 1920s]
Restore to use. For example, I've dusted off last year's menu for the party . This usage alludes to cleaning and thereby renewing some object. [Mid-1900s]
Finish off, kill; also, easily defeat. For example, They vowed to dust off the old man , or We'll dust off this team in no time . [ Slang ; c. 1940]
Thrash, beat up, as in If he didn't hand over his wallet, they threatened to dust him off . [ Slang ; 1920s]
Example Sentences
The pullback inspired some market commentators to dust off an antique market indicator known as the Dow Theory.
You can also use a pastry brush or a clean, unused paintbrush to dust off the surfaces.
To me, 2024 will always be the year I watched Simone Biles stick a Yurchenko double pike in Paris, and it was a joy to dust off some high school physics lessons to explain how she wowed us with her iconic skill.
As it turns out, the real “central pillar of American democracy†is that no man is above the law, unless that man is deemed sufficiently “extraordinary†for one reason or another, in which case retired members of the Supreme Court bar will dust off their keyboards to crank out half-baked blog posts conflating an election result with a legal exoneration.
On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Katherine Yon Ebright, from the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, to discuss whether Trump could dust off this 226-year-old statute to carry out his promised mass deportations of noncitizens.
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