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To: firebrand

“To throw out a window” is a common American idiom for being rid of something undesirable without reference to the fate of what was thrown out the window (except that it does not return).


35 posted on 04/16/2010 12:11:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck; firebrand
“To throw out a window” is a common American idiom for being rid of something undesirable without reference to the fate of what was thrown out the window (except that it does not return).

Kind of like the commonly used statement about throwing someone 'under the bus'.

50 posted on 04/16/2010 7:40:59 AM PDT by SuziQ
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