out of the question

1. (idiomatic) Not remotely possible.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0147 ↗:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

   • 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, AV Club, [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293 The Hunger Games]

     If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.

• French: hors de question, pas question, exclu
• German: außer Frage
• Russian: не мо́жет быть и ре́чи
• Spanish: fuera de discusión