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[out to lunch]  {adj.},  {slang},  {informal}

1. Gone for the midday meal. 2. Inattentive; daydreaming; inefficient; stupid.

[out-and-out]  {adj.}

Extreme; complete; thorough.

The candidate was an out-and-out conservative.

It was out-and-out robbery to charge twice the usual price for eggs just because they were scarce.

Compare: [THROUGH AND THROUGH].

[out-of-pocket expenses]  {n. phr.}

Expenses one has to pay for oneself, not the company that sends one on a given assignment, such as tips for waiters, cab drivers, etc.

[outback]  {n.}

1. The remote and uncultivated wilderness areas of Australia or New Zealand, with very few inhabitants.

Mike and Barbara roughed it in the Australian outback for nearly two years.

2. Any remote, sparsely populated region.

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[outer space]  {n.}

What is outside of the earth's air.

[outside of]  {prep.}

1. Not in; outside.

I would not want to meet a lion outside of a zoo.

Contrast: [INSIDE OF].

2. Except for; not including.

Outside of Johnny, all the boys on the basketball team are over six feet tall.

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[over a barrel] also [over the barrel]  {adv. phr.},  {informal}

In the power of your enemies; not able to do anything about what happens to you; in a helpless condition; trapped.

Bill had Tom over a barrel because Tom owed him money.

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[over age]  {adj. phr.}

Too old; not young enough; above the legal age.

Grandfather wanted to fight in World War II, but he could not because he was over age.

Contrast: [UNDER AGE].

[over and done with]  {adj. phr.}

Finished; completed; forgotten.

[over one's dead body]  {adv. phr.},  {informal}

Not having the ability to stop something undesirable from taking place.