out-of-hand

• “Before the discussion gets way out-of-hand, this thread is being locked.”

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• “This stark fact suggests to me an obvious solution, one I am certain each of these candidates would reject out-of-hand (but for different reasons).”

  The Huffington Post: Michael J. O'Neil: Education Reform and the 2010 Election: Two Lousy Choices

• “The idea that anyone out-of-hand treats the age and not the patient is something that has to be changed, and those over 50 have to be the ones to do it," she says.”

  The Huffington Post: Kristen Houghton: Treat the Patient, Not the Age

• “I wondered if she felt a little guilty for dismissing out-of-hand the idea that her dad and I might have any wisdom whatsoever to offer on the subject until she wisely added: "But first, you guys have to turn the technology off yourselves.”

  The Huffington Post: Susan Kaiser Greenland: Teach Your Parents Well: Teens Teach Their Parents How To Use Tech Wisely

• “Or that FBI Director Meuller rejected out-of-hand previous questions raised about that agent?”

  I wonder if the Texas Rangers are hiring. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “Do explain it, instead of discounting it out-of-hand politically, please!”

  Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings

• “Why do you discount out-of-hand the possibility that something similar *could* happen in Egypt?”

  The Washington Post: Opinion Focus with Eugene Robinson

• “But then there's the risk that the reader either feels you misled them intentionally, or that you're discarding the potential use of that sexuality out-of-hand - I've started calling this the "tokenization" problem.”

  Kings

• “Cost are out-of-hand, access is limited to those that have insurance except for emergency care.”

  Obama to the Capitol Hill Sunday

• “I don't know of anyone who doesn't know of someone with a story of out-of-hand and rampant injustice and corruption in our criminal justice system!”

  First on the CNN Ticker: GOP questions Obama's police criticism

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