time forgot

Phrase

time forgot

1. (idiomatic) Isolated from the outside world and far behind the times; extremely outdated or archaic.
   • "Jee-zus!" Bobbie said, ramming her car viciously up Short Ridge Hill. "Something fishy is going on here! We're in the Town That Time Forgot!"1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28
   • That might have something to do with the fact [Andrew] Scheer is offering, as it stands, the policy platform that time forgot: concerns about deficit financing and the mortgaging of our children's future; all taxes, including the carbon tax, are bad and strangle the wealth creators that generate...2018 March 19, Dan Lett, “Reviews underwhelming for federal conservative leader's coast-to-coast performance”, in Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, M.B.: FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership...
2. (idiomatic) Utterly forgotten; lost to history.
   • It's a game that favors strategy over strength, quickness over endurance, net play over ground strokes—the tennis that time forgot.2009 August 24, Burkhard Bilger, “Perfect Match”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023
   • It's the plan that time forgot: remember the national plan for music education, the government's scheduled response to the Henley review of music education? Don't worry, you're forgiven if you don't.2011 October 4, Tom Service, “Sound of silence: the music education plan that time forgot”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...