out-of-sight

[ out-uhv-sahyt ]
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adjective
  1. Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.

  2. beyond reason; exceedingly high: out-of-sight hospital bills.

Origin of out-of-sight

1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

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out-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.

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