to go whistle: to go and do what one will, to occupy oneself idly or to no purpose (esp. in phrases expressing unceremonious or contemptuous…

spec. Of a person: to be suspended on (also upon) a cross, gibbet, gallows, etc.; to suffer death in this way; esp. as a form of punishment. Also…

Chiefly slang. transitive. Originally in Oxford University: to reject (a candidate) as not reaching the required standard in an examination (now histo…

phrases. to pin the basket: to conclude the matter (obsolete). to be left in the basket: to remain unchosen, or to the last (like the worst apples…

to go (also be thrown,etc.) out (of) the window: (of a plan or pattern of behaviour) to be discarded; to cease to be used or exist, to disappear.

to be out (of) the window: to have been discarded or destroyed; to be no longer used or in existence; to have disappeared.

Colloquial phrase to get knotted, to ‘go to hell’. Usually in imperative, stop annoying me!