dust off

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dust off (third-person singular simple present dusts off, present participle dusting off, simple past and past participle dusted off)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.
2. (transitive, figurative) To use something after a long time without it.

   I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.

3. (transitive, slang) To jilt or desert (a person).
   • Red Sox by the Numbers

     A “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.”

• dust down

• dust off a batter (baseball)
• dust off the cobwebs