...older-than-time maternity shirt

Question

I have to translate this into Spanish. I don't know what these means. I have this context:

He stared at the stained burp cloth over her older-than-time maternity shirt.

Thanks! Odila

Answer 1

It's just hyperbole. They are saying that the maternity shirt is older than time itself (it's been around forever). It's sometimes expressed as this maternity shirt is older than dirt.

más viejo que el tiempo por sí mismo.

stained=manchado

I'm sure that there is probably an idiom for burp cloth rather than trapo para ....

![burp cloth][1]

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Off topic, but interesting. We had a previous discussion on whether the personal a was needed in this context: yo amo a mamá