Definition of 'before your time'

before your time

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If you say that something was before your time, you mean that it happened or existed before you were born or before you were able to know about it or remember it.

'You've never seen the Marilyn Monroe film?'—'No, I think it was a bit before my time.'

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before your time

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If someone has reached a particular stage in life before their time, they have reached it at a younger age than is normal.

The small print has forced me, years before my time, to buy spectacles.

There is nothing like a college town to make you feel old before your time.

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Definition of before your time from the Collins English Dictionary

Active and passive

Active sentences In the following example, the verb is active. The postman delivers hundreds of letters every day. The subject of an active sentence is also the person or thing that carries out ...