be lost to the world

Meaning

1. to be giving all your attention to sth so that you do not notice what is happening around you

In the movies · 9

• The Zygons lost their own world.Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor2013
• I always liked the idea of all those unknown people lost in the world.Before Sunrise1995
• Lost in your quantum world of probabilities and needing certainty.Oppenheimer2023
• And the sooner you come to terms with the fact that you lost the world's greatest athlete,Space Jam: A New Legacy2021
• You look a little lost, Simeon. Is the world changing too fast?Lord of War2005
• completing a yearlong expedition to the lost world.Up2009
• By 1919, a great number of them had lost their heirs to World War One.Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• - I've Lost Track of the World? - No.Coffee and Cigarettes2004

Learn it in full scenes

• Oppenheimer2023
  • Bohr Sends Oppenheimer to Göttingen
  • Strauss Offers Oppenheimer a Job
  • Rabi Meets Oppenheimer on a Train

From the same entry

• all is not lost
• be lost for words
• be lost in
• be lost on
• get lost
• give up for lost
• make up for lost time
• there's little love lost between A and B
• lose it
• lose yourself in
• lose out
• lose out to