be past your sell-by date
UK If someone is past their sell-by date, that person is not wanted or considered useful any more because they are too old:
There's plenty of time to have a baby. I'm not past my sell-by date yet.
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- futile
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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People of little importance
Describing people who are old