dust off

verb

dusted off; dusting off; dusts off

transitive verb

: to bring out or back to use again
dusted off his golf clubs when he retired

Examples of dust off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With the start of spring just a few days away, now is the perfect time to dust off your patio furniture, open up your fire pit, and upgrade your lights. Amanda Oliver, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024 These were the top five U.S. exports to China in 2023 and, while only oil recorded a record high in 2023, buyers of the others seem to have dusted off the trade war — at least from the Chinese point of view — and moved on. Ken Roberts, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 Rather than dust off the onboarding playbook that may have worked before, adding a new board member is an opportunity to assess what that person already knows and then fill in the gaps. Melanie Hughes, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 As for Taiwan, the superpowers could do worse than to dust off their old promise, hammered out by Kissinger, to agree to disagree. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 At what temperature should a child wear a snowsuit? Because snowsuits are for snowy weather, many parents wait until temperatures dip below freezing to dust off their children’s snow suits. Katrina Cossey, Parents, 12 Feb. 2024 Now a couple of collections in at Helmut Lang, Do has dusted off the house’s archives to recontextualize some of its greatest hits in his collections. José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2024 Women at several of Haley’s recent campaign stops have dusted off similar crewnecks in a show of support. John Bacon, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024 AccuWeather advises that property owners may want to brush the dust off their snow shovels and snowblowers and have ice-melting compounds ready. USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of dust off was in 1940

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“Dust off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dust%20off. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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