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behind the times1. Behaving in an outdated or unpopular way. Of course grandpa doesn't have a cell phone—he's behind the times, as usual.2. Lacking the latest information on a particular subject. Wait, Joe and Mara broke up? Wow, I'm behind the times!See also: behind, timesbehind the timesold-fashioned. Sarah is a bit behind the times. Her clothes are quite old-fashioned. Our 90—year-old state senator is a bit behind the times.See also: behind, timesbehind the timesNot keeping up with current fashion, methods, or ideas, as in Your accounting methods are behind the times. Charles Dickens used this idiom in Dombey and Son (1848): "I'm old-fashioned, and behind the Time." [Mid-1800s] See also: behind, times behind the times Out-of-date; old-fashioned.See also: behind, timesbehind the timesOld-fashioned, outdated. From the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries this meaning was conveyed by behindhand. In the nineteenth century, however, it turned into the present locution, as in Dickens’s Dombey and Son (1846): “I’m old-fashioned and behind the time.”See also: behind, timesLegalSeeTime |