time forgot

English

Etymology

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

Phrase

time forgot

1. Isolated from the outside world and far behind the times; extremely outdated or archaic.
   • 1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 28:

     "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!"

   • 2018 March 19, Dan Lett, “Reviews underwhelming for federal conservative leader's coast-to-coast performance”, in Winnipeg Free Press‎^[1], Winnipeg, M.B.: FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-26:

     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.

2. Utterly forgotten; lost to history.
   • 2009 August 24, Burkhard Bilger, “Perfect Match”, in The New Yorker‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

     It's a game that favors strategy over strength, quickness over endurance, net play over ground strokes—the tennis that time forgot.

   • 2011 October 4, Tom Service, “Sound of silence: the music education plan that time forgot”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-03:

     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.

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

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

   • 2013 November 6, Connor Simpson, “Blockbuster Is Dead. Long Live the Video Store”, in The Atlantic‎^[4], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

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

   • 2015 March 16, Hellburg (lyrics and music), “The Girl (feat. Cozi Zuehlsdorff)”‎^[5]performed by Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Monstercat:

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

See also

• stuck in the Stone Age