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- be before (one's) time
be before (one's) time
be before (one's) time
To predate one's tenure or birth. A: "Have you ever seen this show?" B: "No, sorry, it's before my time." I don't know how that project was organized—it was before my time at the company.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Clotilde | | klo-TEELD (French) | French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
Petro | | PE-tro (Esperanto) | Ukrainian, Esperanto |
BoŽEna | | - | Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian |
Malinda | | mə-LIN-də | English |
PÀL | | - | Scottish |
Jamil | | - | Arabic |