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on the way out en · ADP

Meanings

  1. In the process of leaving.
    • Quick! She's already on the way out!
  2. As someone is leaving.
    • He shook my hand on the way out.
  3. (informal) Going out of fashion.
    • This trend is on its way out.
    • The traditional British signal is on its way out. Unsentimental officials will doubtless decree colour-lights from Kings Cross to Waverley, and from Paddington to Penzance, with upper quadrants on minor branches. 1957 June 14, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, pages 422, 423:
  4. (euphemistic, informal) Dying.

Translations (3)

it fuori moda (going out of fashion) · it superato (going out of fashion) · it in declino (going out of fashion)