"on the outs" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1961, Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem",
          "text": "I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nevertheless made a painstaking record of its every tremor.",
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          "ref": "1964, John Anton Dahl, Student, School, and Society: Crosscurrents in Secondary Education, page 83",
          "text": "A second ill of this day lies in the trend of getting more and more on the outs with those who have been more successful than we.",
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          "text": "1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure\nHe's staying at my place because he & Bridg are on the outs."
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          "text": "\"The first country, Nicaragua, was a give-away,\" noted one State Department observer, referring to the GSP review of the country most on the outs with the administration.",
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          "ref": "2003, John Wingspread Howell, Naked in Church, page 409",
          "text": "The fact that he and her sister seemed to be more on the outs than ever may have been half her motivation in leaving the door open a crack.",
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        "On unfriendly terms; estranged."
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        "(chiefly US, idiomatic) On unfriendly terms; estranged."
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          "word": "at odds"
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