yesterday morning/afternoon/evening• Golding said in a newsconferenceyesterday afternoon.• If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.• It had happened before, last night and yesterday morning.• The bagpipes were still there, they had not played a note since yesterday afternoon.• The rebels appear to have initiated a new stage in the war when they crossed the border into Dagestan yesterday morning.
3.yesterday’s newsinformation that is old and no longer interesting 昨日新闻,旧闻
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yesterday’s news• By then the politicalscandal was already yesterday's news.
Examples from the Corpus
yesterday• Burns' proposal was accepted at yesterday's meeting.• The events of yesterday cannot fully explain the world of today.
the day before yesterday• What, from the day before yesterday?• You heard about the unpleasantness in the receptionhallthe day before yesterday, I suppose?• I was only made the day before yesterday.• Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal?• On Sunday, only the day before yesterday - it hardly seemed possible!• This afternoon I read what I wrote about G.P. the day before yesterday.• They gave everyone poisonedteathe day before yesterday.
Originyesterday1
Old Englishgiestran dæg, from giestran“yesterday” + dæg“day”