not in Kansas anymore

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Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial,US)No longerinquietandcomfortablesurroundings.As soon as I walked into that party I thought, "I'mnot in Kansas anymore."1986April, Gerald Hannon, “Leaving Kansas”, inThe Body Politic, number125, Pink Triangle Press,page 8:John Crosbie? A Tory government? You could be forgiven if your first reaction was the feeling that you weren't in Kansas anymore.1990October 1, “Critics' Voices”, inTime‎[1], archived fromthe originalon5 March 2013:The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we'renot in Kansas anymore.1991July, Ray Duncan, “Power Programming”, inPC Magazine,page444:C++ meets all three of these classic criteria of object-orientedness, but once you really start to take advantage of them in your programs, you'll find you're definitelynot in Kansas anymore.

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