on the/someone's/something's way out

idiom

: leaving a place or position

Would you mind closing the door on your way out?

There are rumors that the superintendent of schools is on the way out.

: becoming no longer popular

He incorrectly predicted that the Internet would be on its way out within three years.

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When millennial women got informed that the proper pant silhouette of the twenty-tens, the high waist—which truncated the torso, elongated the leg, and made of every ass a pear—was on the way out, with low-rise making its incursion again, there was a lot of real anger. —

Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024 Grab a kombucha and jerky on the way out from the doctors lounge and head home. —

R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 Oct. 2024 Pumpkin Spice Latte Trend to try: Turning Your Home into a Sanctuary Although some chefs believe that pumpkin spice is on the way out, these warmly-spiced lattes still own the season as of now. —

Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2024 The company should treat the controller fairly on the way out of the organization, offering market standard severance in exchange for a release. —

Steven Wasserman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for on the/someone's/something's way out

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