go out the window
idiom
informal
: to stop being used or thought about
By that point in the argument, reason had gone out the window.
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Yes the statistics go out the window when the playoffs start.
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Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
Harmony and gentility—the music of Spenser—go out the window, and in comes a ferocious, sometimes grating intellectual energy and an intense superiority.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
That may seem surprising given the large number of leaks, but the security Apple has enforced up to this point tends to go out the window when thousands of production lines and tens of thousands of labourers start mass production.
—Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
But if no more rains arrive — or if other, less predictable factors such as lightning storms and heat waves develop later in the year — all that progress could go out the window.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
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Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
Harmony and gentility—the music of Spenser—go out the window, and in comes a ferocious, sometimes grating intellectual energy and an intense superiority.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2022
That may seem surprising given the large number of leaks, but the security Apple has enforced up to this point tends to go out the window when thousands of production lines and tens of thousands of labourers start mass production.
—Gordon Kelly, Forbes, 28 June 2022
But if no more rains arrive — or if other, less predictable factors such as lightning storms and heat waves develop later in the year — all that progress could go out the window.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
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“Go out the window.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20out%20the%20window. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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