Outs
[auts]
Examples
- She has the age and sense of a woman, but the outs and not outs are beyond me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The result of moisture in the interior of a magnet is to weaken the effectiveness of the installation, leading eventually to short circuits and burn-outs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Caleb scattered his snuff carefully instead of taking it, and then added, The ins and outs of things are curious. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At last he outs into the passage, and he cries, 'Is that man never goin' to come? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I dunnot stomach the notion of having favour curried for me, by one as doesn't know the ins and outs of the quarrel. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- As such I know more of the ins and outs of him than any person living does. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I han't seen a way to get you safe, and I've looked arter you to know your ins and outs. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There had been much rain, and the roads were almost impassable from mud, knee-deep in places, and from wash-outs on the mountain sides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Yvonne