blast from the past
Something or someone that a person has not seen for a long time that evokes nostalgic feelings.
Now there's a golden oldie, a blast from the past, when the heavyweight division was still strong and vibrant and unified (...)
past
UK /pɑːst/ US /pɑːst/
prep 5adj 4noun 2adv 1
Definitions
noun
1
The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
1830, Daniel Webster, a speech The past, at least, is secure.
2
The past tense.
adj
1
Having already happened; in the past; finished.
past glories
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
2
Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
That had been, what, three years past?
Some four decades past, as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...].
3
Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
during the past year
Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
4
Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
past tense
adv
1
In a direction that passes.
I watched him walk past.
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