| 单词 | out-of-sight |
| 释义 | out-of-sight[ out-uhv-sahyt ] / ˈaʊt əvˈsaɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR out-of-sight ON THESAURUS.COM adjectiveSlang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist. beyond reason; exceedingly high: out-of-sight hospital bills. Also out-a-sight. Origin of out-of-sightAn Americanism dating back to 1895–1900 Words nearby out-of-sightout of proportion, out of reach, out-of-round, out of season, out of shape, out-of-sight, Out of sight, out of mind, out of sorts, out of square, out-of-state, out-of-stater Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with out-of-sightout of sight Also, out of someone's sight. Out of the range of vision, as in Stay out of sight while they're visiting, or Don't let the baby out of your sight in the yard. [c. 1200] This idiom is also used in the phrase get out of someone's sight, meaning “go away”; for example, Jean was furious with Bill and told him to get out of her sight at once. Unreasonable, excessive, as in Our bill for the wine was out of sight. [Colloquial; late 1800s] Excellent, superb, as in The graduation party was out of sight. This phrase is also used as an interjection meaning “Wonderful!” as in Do I like it? Out of sight! [Slang; second half of 1900s] out of sight, out of mind. What is absent is soon forgotten, as in I don't think of them unless they send a Christmas card—out of sight, out of mind, I guess. This phrase has been proverbial since Homer's time; the earliest recorded use in English was about 1450. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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