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vb. 1 To remove dust from something. 2 (context idiomatic English) To use something after a long time without it.
Wikipedia
Dust off may refer to:
- Dustoff or casualty evacuation, the emergency evacuation of casualties from a combat zone
- Dust-Off, a brand of compressed air
Usage examples of "dust off".
He licked his lips to get the dust off them and he tasted the dirt on his tongue and it made him angry at himself for failing, angry at Chiun for surrendering, angry at Nuihc for always coming at them.
Another wind come in a year or ten and blow all that dust off your hill.
Droos knelt and began picking up the spoons, blowing the dust off and polishing them against his leg, before placing the utensils inside a bag of soft cloth.
He spotted the knot of dust off to the south, deep in the open Funeral Plain.
I clicked open the case and brushed the dust off an innocent-looking capsule.
If, for instance, I wiped the dust off a chair with my napkin, it was to show that the enemy was strong in diamonds.
Pail in hand, Laurentia went outside to fill it with water, then carried it inside and scrubbed the dust off the table.
We dust off a certain scientific paper and read the tried-and-true numbers that have been set down perhaps as much as a generation earlier.
I saw those intelligent creatures wiped away utterly and implacably, as casually as a man flicks a spot of dust off his sleeve.
In these regions the winds picked up dust off the dry land, and the dust storms, while more localized than before, were also thicker, as Sax had witnessed himself, unfortunately, while up on Tyrrhena with Nirgal.
Then jhe turned to the wall that passed as a kitchen, rinsed the dust off the grain jhe'd dropped, and threw it into a frying pan.