Hi! everyone. I was watching a movie lately and came across the phase below ,could you tell me what that means? Character A-What time did they arrive? Character B-Around 5:00 P.M., Evening past. What does "evening past" mean here? Thanks!
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The evening just passed - yesterday evening - relative to the event/time being talked about - d
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The evening just passed - yesterday evening - relative to the event/time being talked about - d
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It sounds unnatural to me. I have never heard the expression 'evening past', and there are no citations in either the British National Corpus or the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
As an answer to the question "What time did they arrive?", "Around 5 pm. Evening passed" does not sound very natural. Did the character say any words after 'Evening past/passed, silak?
I suppose it could well be past - meaning "evening (that is in the) past"." that'll teach me to type and speak on the phone with my daughter's audio book playing!! d
Here is the remaining part of the sentence. A-What time did they arrive?
B-Around 5:00 P.M.,Evening past. I locked them in, and I left.(He is talking about the house and the ones he locked in the house are the children who had returned from a school trip at 5:00 P.M.) Thanks!