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out from under
Idioms and Phrases
Free from difficulties, especially from a burden of debts or work. For example, They've been using credit cards for everything and don't know how they'll get out from under , or We have loads of mail to answer, but we'll soon get out from under . This idiom uses under in the sense of “in a position of subjection.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
He isn’t allowed to become the play’s villain despite his selfish plan to sell the estate out from under his family.
At 05:00, they pulled him out from under the rubble.
"The TPS statute does not authorize the Secretary to pull the rug out from under vulnerable TPS recipients and rescind an extension that has already been granted; she simply has no statutory authority to do so," the complaint said.
“I had also just left my full-time job to be able to focus on Cheekface, so all of the things that were stable in my life got taken out from under me, and I didn’t know how to process things. When we got home from touring, we really had to face that, so I think a good part of this album is about change and loss and finding your footing.”
The last pick up of the day is 75-year-old Lyuba – her white hair peeping out from under a scarf.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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