Be lacking, as in We're out of sugar and coffee. Shakespeare used this idiom in Henry V (3:7): "These English are ... out of beef." [Late 1500s] Also see
run out of.
out of, be
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 | out-and-out |
| Ectopic (in medicine) |
| DeFrantz, Anita (Quotes By) |
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- Young, Neil (Quotes By)
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