Idiom
out to lunch
Meaning
Clueless, inattentive, or careless.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He's completely out to lunch about the new rules.”
“The manager was out to lunch during the meeting and missed all the important details.”
“While her colleagues scrambled to meet the deadline, she wandered through the day out to lunch, oblivious to the mounting pressure around her.”
Examples
simple
“He's completely out to lunch about the new rules.”
contextual
“The manager was out to lunch during the meeting and missed all the important details.”
complex
“While her colleagues scrambled to meet the deadline, she wandered through the day out to lunch, oblivious to the mounting pressure around her.”
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