dusts off

Verb

dust off (third-person singular simple present dusts off, present participle dusting off, simple past and past participle dusted off)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To use something after a long time without it.
   • I think it's time to dust off my old golf clubs, now that I'm retired.
3. (slang, transitive) To jilt or desert (a person).
   • Red Sox by the Numbers
     A “dice girl in a roadside tavern,” she said she shot McNaughton because “he tried to dust me off.”