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English
Etymology
From the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy states, “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
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Adjective
not in Kansas anymore
- (idiomatic, colloquial, US) No longer in quiet and comfortable surroundings
As soon as I walked into that party I thought, "I'm not in Kansas anymore."
1986 April, Gerald Hannon, “Leaving Kansas”, in The Body Politic, number 125, Pink Triangle Press, page 8:John Crosbie? A Tory government? You could be forgiven if your first reaction was the feeling that you weren't in Kansas anymore.
1990 October 1, “Critics' Voices”, in Time, archived from the original on 2013-03-05:The police action is rough and raw, like Hill Street Blues. But when a courtroom jury, asked for its verdict, breaks into song, we know we're not in Kansas anymore.
1991 July, Ray Duncan, “Power Programming”, in PC Magazine, page 444:C++ meets all three of these classic criteria of object-orientedness, but once you really start to take advantage of them in your programs, you'll find you're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
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