单词 | to get out of hand |
释义 | > as lemmasto get out of hand (iii) Out of or beyond control; (formerly also) Scottish †to an immoderate degree, unrestrainedly (obsolete). Esp. in to get out of hand. Also attributive (with hyphens). ΚΠ ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 Quhen he wes heryit out of hand to hie vp my honoris. 1591 R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 242 And, first, he bursteth out of hand as it were into the praise of God. 1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 27 We have at our school two..that were full half a year before they could get out of hand. 1845 J. Mitchell Fall of Napoleon III. iv. 114 How easily cavalry get disordered and out of hand. 1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing III. xxxv. 223 Your temper seems to have got rather out of hand. 1899 N.E.D. at Get Mod. The horses got completely out of hand and dashed down the hill. 1920 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 392/2 The result gained in controlling agrarianism and in setting up superficial order in communities where matters might have got out of hand. 1952 Boys' Life Nov. 19/2 At the moment, they were out of hand, too crazy with emotion to submit to organized endeavor. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 Mar. iii. 13/1 Enrollment had dropped 70 percent, to 500 students, partly because of an out-of-hand party atmosphere. 2006 G. Pretor-Pinney Cloudspotter's Guide i. 43 What started as a light-hearted tiff between lovers has well and truly got out of hand. < as lemmas |
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