The answer is not far fetched. It is simply "in". Not in means out and the opposite of out is in.
The answer is not far fetched, it is "in". "Not in" simply means out and the opposite of out is "in".
Jonathan Swift's title is sarcastic, because "The Modest Proposal" is a satire of the conditions facing lower-class people in Ireland at the time it was written. His suggestion of eating children is...