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ˌout-of-ˈsight, adj. phr. (n.)
Also colloq. out o' sight, outasight a.
[f. out of prep. phr. 9, III + sight n.1 10 b.]
A. adj. phr.
1. Outside the range of sight; distant.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. II. iv. xxxi. 280 She was really getting somewhat febrile in her excitement... Was it at the novelty simply, or the almost incredible fulfilment about to be given to her girlish dreams of being ‘somebody’—walking through her own furlongs of corridor and under her own ceilings of an out-of-sight loftiness.
2. Excellent, incomparable, superior; delightful, exciting, surprising. slang (orig. U.S.).
1893[see outasight a.]. 1896Ade Artie xi. 94 She looked out o' sight! Some of 'em have got their sealskins and their sparklers, but this little girl, with that new make-up and the flowers, beat the best of 'em. 1897C. W. Chesnutt Let. 24 Sept. in H. M. Chesnutt Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1952) x. 81, I saw the Shaw Memorial and the new Public Library Building, which are ‘out of sight’. 1902J. D. Corrothers Black Cat Club i. 26 ‘Out o' sight!’ yelled a dozen voices as the poem was concluded. 1927C. Sandburg Amer. Songbag 279 The corn we raise is our delight, The melons, too, are out of sight. 1961Down Beat 5 Jan. 23, I find some of the musicians I've encountered on the road rather ridiculous... It seems everything is ‘something else’ these days. Or is it ‘out of sight’? 1966Surfer VII. iv. 11 The waves are a perfection 10 to 15 feet and straight over. Really up tight and out of sight! 1970Times 6 July 8/5 Whenever possible he liked to make a point of talking to drug users on their own ground... An action that led one girl student to remark ‘for an official person he's absolutely out of sight.’ 1973Ottawa Jrnl. 14 July 24/2, I met this groovy dude at the bowling alley. He is out of sight.
B. n. One who or that which is unseen. rare.
1930Auden Poems 18 Better where no one feels, The out-of-sight, buried too deep for shafts. |