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out of the window

out of the window is the alternative form of out the window.

Meaning of out the window

Prepositional phrase

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) Made obsolete; altered drastically as a result of situational change.
    • Women can run, blacks can run, all sorts of people can run. We didn't think people like that could win in years past. That conventional wisdom is out the window now. That's good news.1990 June 8, “Newshour”, in PBS Newshour
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) Gone; departed; disappeared.
    • Life had gone out the window and scampered off.2011, David Seaman, The Real Meaning of Life, page 178

Questions about out of the window

What is out of the window the alternative form of?
Out of the window is the alternative form of out the window.

Words near out of the window in the dictionary

  1. out of the question
  2. out of the running
  3. out of the side of one's mouth
  4. out of the starting gate
  5. out of the way
  6. out of the window
  7. out of the woods
  8. out of thin air
  9. out of this world
  10. out of time
  11. out of touch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of the window (page history and authors); out the window (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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