out of the question

[out of the question] {adj. phr.}

Not worth considering; unthinkable; impossible.

* /It sometimes snows as late as June in the mountains, but the summer campers thought that snow was out of the question./

* /The boys had no money, so it was out of the question for them to go to the movies./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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