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Out of season

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not in a proper season or time; untimely; inopportune.
beyond or out of the proper time or the usual or appointed time.

See also: Out Season


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A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.
Fables by Aesop View in context
"I know," he thought, "that fashion not only in him, but in all city people, who, after being twice in ten years in the country, pick up two or three phrases and use them in season and out of season, firmly persuaded that they know all about it.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
They went back to dress and dine; and so well had the scheme answered already, that nothing was found amiss; though its being "so entirely out of season," and the "no thoroughfare of Lyme," and the "no expectation of company," had brought many apologies from the heads of the inn.
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
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