If you say that you would not put it past someone to do something bad, you mean that you would not be surprised if they did it because you think their character is bad. You know what she's like. I wouldn't put it past her to call the police and say I stole them
n That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow They are one -- the knowledge and the dream
If you go past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you. I dashed past him and out of the door A steady procession of people filed past the coffin = by Past is also an adverb. An ambulance drove past. = by
If it is past a particular time, it is later than that time. It was past midnight It's past your bedtime. = gone, after
Past events and things happened or existed before the present time. I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help The list of past champions includes many British internationals. = previous
a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle