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Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 10:29:14 AM
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Hi,

I'm looking for an idiom meaning meaning like completely forgot about it because you were distracted:

Is "lose out of sight" correct in this case

Can you say: "I lost the cookies out of sight and they got burned in the oven"

Thanks

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thar
Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 10:32:53 AM
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it does not fit in a description of what happened, but as an idiom standing alone:

Out of sight, out of mind.

ie if you can't see it, you forget about it.

and no, 'lost out of sight' does not work. 'I lost track of them' might do, although that normally means something that is changing. eg you lose track of time, when you do not notice how much time has passed. So that might work if something is cooking.

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Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 10:36:13 AM
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thar wrote:

it does not fit in a description of what happened, but as an idiom standing alone:

Out of sight, out of mind.

ie if you can't see it, you forget about it.

and no, 'lost out of sight' does not work. 'I lost track of them' might do, although that normally means something that is changing. eg you lose track of time, when you do not notice how much time has passed. So that might work if something is cooking.

Thank you as always, Thar!

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Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 11:21:46 AM
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Hi Chazz,

'Lost track' is probably the best, as Thar says.

Formally - forgot to monitor
Informally - forgot to keep an eye on

(It annoys me when I forget to set the timer and the cookies burn. Usually my words are more expletive when that happens. Idiom lose out of sight - English Vocabulary - English (3) )

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Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 12:18:04 PM
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The cookies went completely out of my mind, and got burned.
The Proverbs of Alfred - 1253AD

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Posted: Sunday, December 2, 2012 9:37:13 PM
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And also: the cookies slipped my mind and got burned in the oven Idiom lose out of sight - English Vocabulary - English (5)

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 4:49:21 AM
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I heard a cricket commentator on the radio say that England had beaten India 'out of sight'. What did he mean by that please?

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:10:30 AM
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Well, it could be that he considered it a remarkable achievement for England to beat India.

"England beat India. Out of sight!"

Quote:

out of sight Slang
Remarkable; incredible:

American Heritage

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:12:27 AM
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Thanks Drag0n. I would never have made that connection.

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:14:27 AM
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more likely they were beaten, and if it were a race (originally a horse race, rather than a running race, I suspect??), they would be so far ahead they would be out of sight...

a bit like the ALl BLacks Idiom lose out of sight - English Vocabulary - English (10) Idiom lose out of sight - English Vocabulary - English (11)

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Drag0nspeaker
Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:54:18 AM
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Isn't the phrase "All blacks" considered racist these days? - it should be "all ethnically un-pink".
Honestly, I'd hate to be called 'pink', it's more of a 'slightly reddish bronze with highlights of tan ...'.

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Romany
Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 7:58:23 AM
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But Dragon -

the name refers to their uniforms. They're black. If they got called the all-pinks that would signal a uniform change...and all the other teams would laugh at them!

Or do you mean that even to give a name to the colour-formerly-known-as-black is now considered racist?

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 8:13:14 AM
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Dammit ! the f****** cookies! (Old Alzy strikes again)

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Jyrkkä Jätkä
Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 8:20:50 AM
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lobster?

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Posted: Monday, December 3, 2012 10:55:38 AM
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Pink

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Black

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Thank you jc - I thought no-one had noticed!

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