Out Of The Question Meaning

(idiomatic) Impossible to even contemplate.

Example:   Redesigning the database at this stage is out of the question.‎
1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
  Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Hunger Games
  If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.

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