out of the window

Idioms

Discarded, tossed out. This term is often used in the phrase go out the window, as in For the town planners past experience seems to have gone out the window. It alludes to unwanted items being hurled out of the window. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

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Regan locked eyes with her mom for another second and then slipped the rest of the way out of the window.

From Literature

The woman said she put on her pyjamas and leaned out of the window to call for help, but she said - due to the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown - nobody was there.

From BBC

The shame around posting fakes seems to have gone completely out of the window.

From BBC

He held out his hand to help her out of the window.

From Literature

She has also recorded the sounds of birds singing, footsteps crunching on snow and flowing streams to remind her of life back on that blue planet she can see out of the window.

From Barron's

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