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snap out of
Idioms and Phrases
Suddenly recover, as in You can't expect an entire economy to snap out of the doldrums overnight . This expression is also put as an imperative, Snap out of it ! telling someone to return to his or her normal state of mind from an undesirable condition such as grief, self-pity, or depression; for example, Snap out of it, Stella; it's over and done with . [1920s]Example Sentences
I think everyone is expecting City, at some point in this awful run of defeats, to snap out of it, find form and absolutely thrash somebody.
He recalled the attitude towards him was, "what a load of nonsense, snap out of it".
As for the character of the American people, if we took the digital poison away, people would snap out of their Trump-loving stupors pretty quickly.
For a while, I held out hope that with time and credible information, he would somehow snap out of the ultra-conservative, extremist-leaning, blind loyalty he seems to have embraced.
“Snap out of it,†Cher kept telling me in my mind.
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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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