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AS regular readers will know, we carry quite a few articles saying that "Eastern Europe" is an out-of-date term.
Just because other people think and say appallingly short-sighted and out-of-date terms from the kind of sitcom the BBC would have pulled in the 70s for being too racist, that doesn't excuse their use, especially from a parliamentary candidate who's supposed to be shooting for some position of vague power.
Watch out for old, out-of-date tea.
In other words, out-of-date and somewhat sleazy terms.
There was a time when a biblically literate songwriter like Bob Dylan--to stick with my out-of-date examples--expected audiences to recognize certain terms, images, and stories.
The factories in Southerton have out-of-date machinery because industry could scarcely invest for the long term when its costs were spiralling upwards.
(History, a scornful dismissal of the out-of-date, as in "he's history," denoted what was once called passé, a term now so outmoded as to be antediluvian, a word washed ashore after Noah's flood. The language of fashion cries out for an up-to-date word for "out-of-date").
Out-of-date Baileys?
They have an out-of-date one.
Hence out-of-date images are perpetuated.
Out-of-date and problem cars.
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