out-of-sight
Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
beyond reason; exceedingly high: out-of-sight hospital bills.
Origin of out-of-sight
1- Also out-a-sight.
Words Nearby out-of-sight
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How to use out-of-sight in a sentence
But I did not know for some time that the word means "black-going-out-of-sight."
Rising Wolf the White Blackfoot | James Willard SchultzWe watched them out-of sight with aching hearts and throbbing eyes.
Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 | Various
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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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