before someone's time

Definitions

1. 1

   From before one was born or old enough to be aware of the world.

   • I don't know — that was before my time
   • At thirteen, I liked a lot of music that was before my time: Louis Armstrong and Dixieland jazz, Sousa marches, and barbershop quartet singing.
2. 2

   At a stage in one's life, development, etc. that seems premature.

   • dead before his time
   • Oh yes, and tell her to take care of herself too, and not get herself all banged up again, or she will look old before her time.
   • Jimi Hendrix is buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in Renton. The electric guitar player extraordinaire died before his time at the young age of 27.

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