词汇 | outta sight |
词源 | Outta sight! Often regarded as original college slang of the 1960s, outta sight, for “something remarkable or wonderful,” has been part of the language since the 1840s, in the Bowery expression out of sight. Stephen Crane used it in his first novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1896): “I’m stuck on her shape. It’s outa sight . . .” |
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