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out of control
Idioms and Phrases
Also, out of hand . No longer under management, direction, or regulation; unmanageable or unruly. For example, Housing costs are out of control , or The children were getting out of hand again . The first term uses control in the sense of “restraint,†a usage dating from the late 1500s; the variant uses hand in the sense of “power†or “authority,†and dates from the late 1800s.Example Sentences
Commentating on the game for BBC Radio 5 Live, former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock said: "Tarkowski knows exactly what he's doing in that situation. I think it is so dangerous. It is out of control from Tarkowski."
“There are a lot of people that are getting into gardening specifically because they see it as an act of rebellion and as an act of taking back some control over their life at a time when not only is there quite a bit of feeling out of control as a society, but also we have a presidential administration that specifically wants people to feel like they don’t have control,†Brown said.
Switch on the TV and you'll see attack ads that say: "Elon Musk is out of control."
Sean Garner, 30, from Liverpool, has previously been charged with being the owner of a dangerously out of control dog, causing serious injury and possession of a fighting dog over the incident.
As the fires began to burn out of control, rumors spread through group chats and social media posts that the rec center had burnt down.
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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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