To defenestrate Churchill would murder the party in the eyes of the electorate.

To " defenestrate " is to throw something or someone out of what?

"Instead, one gets the sense that he read the polls and the long-term trends, and decided to defenestrate a lot of his old core convictions." This lament has, unfortunately, aged well.

I decided the remaining lickspittles will vamoose, start caterwauling with those pettifogging over the deal, accuse Mrs May of betrumping them then defenestrate her.

Author Hilary Mantel, an ex- and anti-Catholic ("the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people''), has set out to rehabilitate Cromwell and defenestrate More, most especially the More of Robert Bolt's beautiful and hagiographic ''A Man for All Seasons.''

You carry on too long till your colleagues defenestrate you (as happened to both Thatcher and Blair).

"I think the effort to defenestrate me is politically driven, which is not to say that the government is behind it," he said.