| 单词 | to be out the window |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be out (of) the window b. to be out (of) the window: to have been discarded or destroyed; to be no longer used or in existence; to have disappeared. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (intransitive)] > be dismissed or rejected to go whistle1453 to go hanga1616 pluck1772 to be left in the basketa1845 to go (also be thrown, etc.) out (of) the window1913 to be out (of) the window1938 to get knotted1963 1938 Proc. Acad. Polit. Sci. 17 75 The 1932 doctrine that, in an emergency, the federal government must see to it that nobody starves in this country is out the window. 1939 H. L. Ickes Secret Diary (1954) III. 3 Steve Early..said that the ‘brain trust was out of the window’. 1945 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Oct. 4-0/3 Production of specialty goods—such as birthday and wedding cakes—was ‘out the window’. 1968 F. Lundberg Rich & Super-rich iv. 173 As FDR himself said, ‘the New Deal is out the window.’ 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xiii. 24/3 The old rule-of-thumb of putting insulation with a resistance rating of 19 in your attic (R-19) is ‘out the window’. 1986 J. Batten Judges 297 The Indian Act's section 94 was out the window. 2003 S. North Bones to Pick viii. 141 Sneeze and a year's research is out the window before you can say godblessyou. < as lemmas |
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