Thing To Be Today. Or Possibly Not: outgoing.

 That outgoing football manager - is he always ready to engage with his players, staff, fans, and interviewers? 

Is he full of ideas and opinions, and more than ready to share them with the world? 

Is he socially generous, with a streak of rare-as-gold charisma..?

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...or is has he just been sacked?

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I'm afraid it's probably the latter, isn't it.

Oh dear.

Thing To Be Today. Or Possibly Not: outgoing. This word has a long history, but it just meant leaving somewhere until the 1950s, when people started being interested in ideas of introversion and extroversion. The Old English form of outgoing is utgangende, and the word out goes right back to Proto-Indo-European. In Old English the word going was gang.