Daily life
go out of the window
disappear completely
If plans or rules go out of the window, people stop following or thinking about them completely.
Hear it in real life
Are you still going to cook tonight?
No, the guests are staying over, so that plan has gone out of the window.
Once the train was cancelled, all our plans went out of the window.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: All our plans went out of the window completely away.
Say: All our plans went out of the window.
The idiom already means plans were abandoned, so don’t add “away” after it.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
plans go out of the window; rules went out of the window
Your turn: say it out loud
Once the train was cancelled, all our plans went out of the window.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
go out of the window
disappear completely
“Once the train was cancelled, all our plans went out of the window.”
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