out+of+a+window

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• out (of) the window — informal phrase used for saying that you stop doing something or stop using something completely It’s important not just to throw reason out the window. When money is mentioned, principles go out of the window. Thesaurus: finished and… …   Useful english dictionary

• go out of the window — go out (of) the window if a quality, principle, or idea goes out of the window, it does not exist any more. Then people start drinking and sense goes out of the window …   New idioms dictionary

• when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window — Similar in sentiment to 1474 CAXTON Game of Chess III. iii. Herof men saye a comyn prouerbe in englond that loue lastest as longe as the money endurith. 1631 R. BRATHWAIT English Gentlewoman vi. It hath been an old Maxime; that as pouerty goes in …   Proverbs new dictionary

• fly out (of) the window — fly/go out (of) the ˈwindow idiom (informal) to stop existing; to disappear completely • As soon as the kids arrived, order went out of the window. Main entry: ↑windowidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• go out (of) the window — fly/go out (of) the ˈwindow idiom (informal) to stop existing; to disappear completely • As soon as the kids arrived, order went out of the window. Main entry: ↑windowidiom …   Useful english dictionary

• peep out of a window — look through a window, take a quick glance out of the window …   English contemporary dictionary

• go out (of) the window — informal (of a plan or behaviour) be abandoned or cease to exist. → window …   English new terms dictionary

• go out of the window — ► go out of the window informal (of a plan or behaviour) be abandoned or cease to exist. Main Entry: ↑window …   English terms dictionary

• window — ► NOUN 1) an opening in a wall or roof, fitted with glass in a frame to let in light or air and allow people to see out. 2) an opening through which customers are served in a bank, ticket office, etc. 3) a transparent panel in an envelope to show …   English terms dictionary

• out — ► ADVERB 1) moving away from a place, especially from one that is enclosed to one that is open. 2) away from one s usual base or residence. 3) outdoors. 4) so as to be revealed, heard, or known. 5) at or to an end: the romance fizzled out. 6) at… …   English terms dictionary

• out — 1. In current use out, unlike in, is primarily an adverb (We went out), and to form a preposition it normally needs the addition of of (We went out of the house). Use of out as a direct preposition without of is non standard in BrE, although it… …   Modern English usage