out of fashion
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3.4
- idiom
- Many of the trends from the 1990s are now out of fashion and rarely seen on the streets.
- goes out of fashion
- fall out of fashion
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- He also notes that this school is out of fashion with the Greeks.
- By the way, if you're taking prints, they're much more likely to be out of fashion a lot faster.
- Both patriotism and this kind of straightforward tale seem to be weirdly out of fashion at the moment.
- So fast fashion actually means how fast what you're buying today is going to get out of fashion.
- So I have two of these and they kind of have these leaf prints on which never really go out of fashion, do they?
- So one reason, you know, the empirical stuff was out of fashion was because Anna Schwartz was doing it right.
- Like things like not liking a person who burps their beer or chews a little loudly, or wears out of fashion clothing, or orders chicken fingers on a first date.
Examples
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Romance, genius, charisma, individual brushstrokes, prophets, and demiurges have been out of fashion in Anglophone philosophy for several generations.
Academic text (1996) -
I regret that some of these seem to have gone out of fashion.
Academic text (1991) -
This stuff could go out of fashion real quick, right?
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Used to be really popular... till it kind of went out of fashion.
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A bit out of fashion these days.
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I feel quite out of fashion.
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Apparently knees are out of fashion.
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Your wife says your ties are out of fashion.
Fiction book (1998) -
Your suit is two years out of fashion, your shoes abominable, your dancing ridiculous--
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Hemlines rise and fall in a predictable pattern; silhouettes become extreme and then fall out of fashion.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.6
No longer fashionable or popular
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4.7
Not in style, like clothes or ideas from an earlier time
79
5.0
No longer useful or fashionable because it is old
71
6.2
Not modern and looking old-fashioned
41
7.4
Not fashionable or popular and thought boring
37
4.4
No longer current or in use
10
6.5
No longer fashionable or useful
8
3.7
Few people wear it now because it is not in style
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8.4
No longer fashionable or modern
2
7.7
Not fashionable or aware of current trends
1
6.8
No longer new or fashionable
1
9.9
No longer in fashion and looking old
Old and out of date in ideas, opinions, or ways
Antonyms
How Fashionable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'no longer popular or stylish' is directly derivable from combining 'out' (not within/away from) with 'fashion' (style), with the prepositional pattern 'out of X' indicating exclusion from a category. This is a common, compositional English pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent enough that a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Out of fashion may come from old shops that moved last season's clothes away from the front window when a new style arrived. The clothes were put out of the main fashion display and kept in the back, so out of fashion means 'no longer popular or in style'.