A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

OUT of debt, out of danger

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  1639 J. CLARKE Paramiologia Anglo-Latina 82 Out of debt and deadly danger. 1667 H. PEACHAM Worth of Penny (ed. 2) 8 How bold, confident, merry, lively, and ever in humour are moneyed men (for being out of debt, they are out of danger). 1710 S. PALMER Proverbs 132 Out of Debt out of Danger. ..A Man in Debt is a Slave, and can’t act with Liberty. 1908 E. M. SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY H.M.I. xxi. Call it ‘distributing capital expenditure over a term of years’, and even a rural dean succumbs. ‘Out of debt, out of danger,’ but ‘out of debt, out of progress.’ 1977 ‘C. AIRD’ Parting Breath vii. ‘Well, they’re important, aren’t they?’ said Leeyes largely. ‘Out of debt, out of danger.’ ■ security; thrift
  

OUT of sight, out of mind
Cf. L. absens haeres non erit, an absent person will not be an heir.

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  c 1250 Proverbs of Alfred (1907) 46 He that is ute bi-loken [shut out] He is inne sone foryeten [forgotten]. c 1450 tr. T. a Kempis’De Imitatione Christi (EETS) I. xxxiii. Whan Man is oute of sight, son be he passith oute of mynde. 1545 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages (ed. 2) D6^V Whereunto also agreethe oure Englyshe proverbe which sayethe: Oute of syght, oute of mynde. 1797 A. RADCLIFFE Italian III. ix. Old women
  

now-a-days are not much thought of; out of sight out of mind with them. 1863 C. KINGSLEY Water Babies i. Sir John and the rest saw no more of her; and out of sight was out of mind. 1979 ‘S. WOODS’ This Fatal Writ 45 The brief .. was promptly concealed. . . He was working on the principle ‘out of sight, out of mind’. 2002 Spectator 13 Apr. 38 ‘Once word gets out, people will come,’ they say.’Out of sight, out of mind.’ ■ absence; forgetfulness
out see also BETTER be out of the world than out of the fashion; there are as good FISH in the sea as ever came out of it; when the GORSE is out of bloom, kissing’s out of fashion; don’t HALLOO till you are out of the wood; out of the MOUTHS of babes—; MURDER will out; never tell TALES out of school; TRUTH will out.