time forgot

phrase

Isolated from the outside world and far behind the times; extremely outdated or archaic.

Meanings

phrase
  1. idiomaticIsolated from the outside world and far behind the times; extremely outdated or archaic.

    "Jee-zus!" Bobbie said, ramming her car viciously up Short Ridge Hill. "Something fishy is going on here! We're in the Town That Time Forgot!"

    1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28
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    That might have something to do with the fact [Andrew] Scheer is offering, as it stands, the policy platform that time forgot: concerns about deficit financing and the mortgaging of our children's future; all taxes, including the carbon tax, are bad and strangle the wealth creators that generate prosperity for all Canadians; government desperately needs to cut red tape and regulation to allow entrepreneurs to create jobs; Ottawa must support freer trade policies with a Canada-first mentality.

    2018 March 19, Dan Lett, “Reviews underwhelming for federal conservative leader's coast-to-coast performance”, in Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, M.B.: FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2023
  2. idiomaticUtterly forgotten; lost to history.

    He's in love with the statue in a marble block / He's in love with the girl that time forgot

    2015 March 16, Hellburg, “The Girl (feat. Cozi Zuehlsdorff)”performed by Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Monstercat
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    It's a game that favors strategy over strength, quickness over endurance, net play over ground strokes—the tennis that time forgot.

    2009 August 24, Burkhard Bilger, “Perfect Match”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023

    It's the plan that time forgot: remember the national plan for music education, the government's scheduled response to the Henley review of music education? Don't worry, you're forgiven if you don't.

    2011 October 4, Tom Service, “Sound of silence: the music education plan that time forgot”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023

    During the ensuing conflict the original timeline was restored, but some Tick-Tocks survived, remnants of a time that time itself forgot.

    2012, Andy Gavin, Untimed, Pacific Palisades, C.A.: Mascherato Publishing, →ISBN, page 255

    I loved snooping through rows and rows of DVDs, finding strange and obscure movies time forgot.

    2013 November 6, Connor Simpson, “Blockbuster Is Dead. Long Live the Video Store”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023

Origin

Possibly originated by the novel The Land That Time Forgot (1918), set in a secret island inhabited by dinosaurs.

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Cite this entry
APA

time forgot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time%20forgot

MLA

“time forgot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time%20forgot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “time forgot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/time%20forgot.

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