out (of) the window イディオム
a window of opportunity
go out the window
open a window
window of opportunity
window on the world
go window-shopping
Idiom(s): go window-shoppingTheme: SHOPPING
to go about looking at goods in store windows without actually buying anything.
• The clerks do a lot of window-shopping in their lunch hour, looking for things to buy when they get paid.
• Joan said she was just window-shopping, but she bought a new coat.
Window dressing
If something is done to pretend to be dealing with an issue or problem, rather than actually dealing with it, it is window dressing.Window to the soul
Eyes are sometimes referred to as the window to the soul.go out the window|go|out the window
v. phr., informal To go out of effect; be abandoned. During the war, the school dress code went out the window.launch window|launch|window
n., Space English, informal 1. A period of time when the line-up of planets, Sun, and Moon are such as to make favorable conditions for a specific space launch. The mission was canceled until the next launch window which will be exactly six weeks from today. 2. A favorable time for starting some kind of ambitious adventure. My next launch window for a European trip isn't until school is over in June.out (of) the window
Forgotten or disregarded; absent or wasted. One affiliate of the admirers started shouting at the apostle during the presentation, and all faculty of breeding went appropriate out of the window. Once the government deregulated the industry, big-ticket assurance precautions were the aboriginal affair out the window.Learn more: out, windowout (of) the window
Fig. gone; wasted. All that assignment gone out the window because my computer crashed. My forty dollars—out the window! Why didn't I save my money?Learn more: out, windowout of the window
Discarded, tossed out. This appellation is generally acclimated in the byword go out the window, as in For the boondocks planners accomplished acquaintance seems to accept gone out the window. It alludes to exceptionable items actuality hurled out of the window. [First bisected of 1900s] Learn more: of, out, windowout the window
mod. gone; wasted. My forty dollars—out the window. Why didn’t I save my money? Learn more: out, windowout the window
Discarded, gone forever. The alteration from altar befuddled or alone out of a window to account and added added brief things took abode in the seventeenth century. Dickens played with it in Pickwick Papers: “‘I am ruminating,’ said Mr. Pickwick, ‘on the aberrant alteration of animal affairs.’—‘Ah, I see—in at the alcazar aperture one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, sir?’—‘An eyewitness of animal nature, sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick.”Learn more: out, window
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