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Definition

To be so immature and unprepared as to have no hope of achieving an accomplishment.

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Origins

Calque of Japanese 百年早い (hyaku-nen hayai).

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In Context

  • "Don't make me waste my time! You are a hundred years too early to be an opponent worthy of fighting me!"
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