sell - by date

A sudden snap health inspection of the hotel larder revealed a few tins past their sell-by date.

The focus is on mentoring all of you back to full consciousness, and this old game of blame and retribution is well past its sell-by date!

If cabinet members were perishable goods, Alberto Gonzales would have passed his "sell by" date sometime last spring.

Usually when the body's cells reach their "sell-by date" they commit suicide.

Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, who coined the Bric acronym in 2001, insists that his creation is not past its sell-by date.

Deng Xiaoping's admonition that China should hide its strength has passed its sell-by date.

If you're buying in bulk packaging, check the sell-by date, look for cracks and rips in the package.

But today, this emphasis on safety and security is long past its sell-by date.

That system has long since reached its sell-by date.

Youth will be youth, which is why a surprising number have clung to Nazism long past its sell-by date.

Butter also has a shorter sell-by date.

Sell by date printed on side.

Yogurt: Yogurt will remain good 7-10 days after its sell-by date.

The supermarket's, on the other hand, came from a filthy workshop where workers "recycled" buns after their sell-by date.

Your sell-by-date expired so you had to be sold