off the table

be off the table

To be withdrawn or no longer available, as for consideration, acceptance, discussion, etc. I wouldn't wait too long to accept the job offer—it might be off the table before you know it. Before we begin this debate, let me clarify that you are both to focus solely on the question of the economy; all other topics are off the table.
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off the table

Withdrawn or no longer available, as for consideration, acceptance, discussion, etc. I wouldn't wait too long to accept the job offer—it might be off the table before you know it. Before we begin this debate, let me clarify that you are both to focus solely on the question of the economy—all other topics are off the table.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be off the table
  • be on the table
  • reassign
  • reassign to
  • reassign to (something)
  • week
  • (Someone or something) called, they want their (something) back!
  • tomorrow
  • a rotten apple spoils the (whole) bushel
  • bushel
References in classic literature
Pierre took his feet off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre.
He looked so dangerous that we all three leaped to our feet, and Hollis, with the back of his hand, sent the kriss flying off the table. I believe we shouted together.
Charm." He slipped off the table and left the cuddy without a look at us.
He got briskly off the table on which he was sitting (for the only chair was allotted to Sir Walter) and ran rapidly up the ladder to the platform above.
Instead of keeping still, so I could eat him comfortably, he trembled so with fear that he fell off the table into a big vase that was standing on the floor.
The cousin took a sheet of paper off the table, and handed it to Mrs.
One morning, a week after I had come off the table, I lay on my hospital bed, weak and weary.
There were always two nurses with her, or else one mother and one nurse, and for a long time she was a pattern-child who always coughed off the table and said, "How do you do?" to the other Figs, and the only game she played at was flinging a ball gracefully and letting the nurse bring it back to her.
Now do try, there's a dear!' And Alice got the Red Queen off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.
The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are very well-behaved and always cough off the table, and so on, but after a bit they are not so well-behaved and stick their fingers into the butter, which is got from the roots of old trees, and the really horrid ones crawl over the table-cloth chasing sugar or other delicacies with their tongues.
Mac and Steve, you cut away and bring up the rest of the straw; and you small chaps, clear off the table, if you have stuffed all you can.
"Run, Beth, and help Hannah clear half the things off the table. It will be too absurd to put a luncheon for twelve before a single girl," cried Jo, hurrying away to the lower regions, too excited to stop even for a laugh.
You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult enough; but I laughed to myself, and then I fell off the table, and got a bump, which I have still--for it was not right of me to laugh.
He's sure to fetch the Professor, and we couldn't take him in, you know!" And in another minute the disguises were stowed away in the cupboard, the door unbolted, and the two Conspirators seated lovingly side-by-side on the sofa, earnestly discussing a book the Vice-Warden had hastily snatched off the table, which proved to be the City-Directory of the capital of Outland.
On this occasion, for example, while the old lady was laughing heartily over the boyish manner in which we tumbled into the parlour, Sarah was perturbedly picking up the broken pieces of a teacup, which the Professor had knocked off the table in his precipitate advance to meet me at the door.