When you lose a Test match, personal performances go out of the window unfortunately.

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Perhaps that thought is not as consoling as it should be: when things get tough, judgment all too often seems to go out of the window.

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In that calculus, morals usually go out of the window.

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Embracing AirPlay has usually involved a wholesale switch in hardware: years of speaker investment go out the window for the sake of skipping a wire.

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Too often we get caught up in the daily grind and our intentions of eating lunch go out the window as emails and deadlines takeover.

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When there is no treaty, some of those exceptions go out the window.

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She heard a gunshot and, looking out the back window, saw one of the mules go down on its knees.

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The concept of loot and random gun drops and builds would go out the window, as would free roaming and wacky sub-characters.

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You get so caught up in the day-to-day that you quickly forget most of what you learned, and all your best intentions go out the window.

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