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Idioms and Phrases

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]
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This is a must-win game for Ipswich and we're at the stage of the season where form goes out of the window a little.

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Jakob also alleged his father threatened him in 2016, and another episode around the same time when Gjert was said to have thrown his games console out of the window.

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He described another alleged incident in 2016 at a junior championships when his father threatened him and another episode around the same time when Gjert was said to have thrown his games console out of the window.

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"They said it looked like I was trying to climb out of the window, but because my leg was so badly broken the pain probably stopped me from being able to get out."

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"Today, Attorney General James Uthmeier threw ethics law out of the window when he publicly took a side in an ongoing Florida lawsuit where Andrew and Tristan Tate are suing a Florida woman for orchestrating a sophisticated plot to use sex as a weapon to ruin their lives," the statement read in part.

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