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Significats de back-number en anglès

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Someone who is no longer popular.

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        1
        Those men haven't got any use for a back-number old place like this.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        2
        They'd come up and try warming their hands over my head, an' all those back-number jokes.
        A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
        3
        It was a back-number pleasure, they agreed, but that, like an old print, it held a charm in its quaintness.
        The Colossus: A Novel
        4
        He smiled wanly and asked for his mail, which consisted only of a pile of back-number copies of a newspaper.
        Land of the Burnt Thigh
        5
        The betting market, however, appears to view him as a back-number and he is on offer at 100-1.
        The Guardian
        6
        He ran away with the Sun Alliance Chase at his peak and proved he was no back-number with terrific runs at the track this season.
        The Guardian
        7
        The old back-numbers whom they were to have ousted so ruthlessly?
        The Dark House
        8
        Still, back-numbers have their feelings-andtheir memories.
        The Red Planet
        9
        Mr. Henry James has never gathered into a book from the back-numbers of magazines the half of his earlier efforts.
        Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
        10
        Goat breeders admit that goats are found of roughage, but the animals draw the line at tin cans, old tire casings, back-numbers of Esquire, etc.
        The new yorker
        11
        "I'm not a back-number yet, but it's lucky the opposition don't know how hard it was for me to get up."
        The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
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