out of hand
out of control:
Things got a little out of hand at the party and three windows were broken.
He went to see his doctor because he felt his drinking was getting out of hand.
If you refuse something out of hand, you refuse it completely without thinking about or discussing it:
Moving to London is certainly a possibility - I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
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Uncontrolled
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok
- amuck
- cut loose idiom
- extravagant
- intemperate
- like mad idiom
- mad
- maniacal
- rampant
- raw
- rebellious
- spin
- spiral
- tearaway
- unbridled
- unchecked
- uncontrollable
- unmanageable
- wildfire
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