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Meaning: (idiomatic)Notremotelypossible.1898, Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost Special:A second special wasout of the question, as the ordinary local service was already somewhat deranged by the first.1910,Emerson Hough, chapter II, inThe Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as theMount Vernonoffered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy wellout of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.2012March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club,The Hunger Games[1]:If Suzanne Collins’ novelThe Hunger Gamesturns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’tout of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.
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