out of the question

out of the question
{adj. phr.} Not worth considering; unthinkable; impossible. * /It sometimes snows as late as June in the mountains, but the summer campers thought that snow was out of the question./ * /The boys had no money, so it was out of the question for them to go to the movies./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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