out of the window

1. Discarded, tossed out. This term is often used in the phrase go out the window, as in For the town planners past experience seems to have gone out the window. It alludes to unwanted items being hurled out of the window. [First half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

"People jumped out of the window of that tram... just as this happened, I saw the incident tram crash over into the building next to the Subway restaurant."

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His usual set, heavily influenced by the wants of the Orange Army, went out of the window.

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She looked out of the window to see James walking down the street.

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She added: "As a young female, when I'm going out, mainly on a jog, it's the staring, the leaning out of the window."

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Gordon told police officers he and Marten had both fallen out of the window while trying to fix the TV aerial, but they remained suspicious.

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