all at sea
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The thrower, the lifters, the jumpers were all at sea as the ball soared over the back to Charles Ollivon.
From BBC ● May 19, 2023
Equally, asking us to do some of the stuff that they do, we would be all at sea as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2019
How to report yet not “promote”, how to convey sympathy without propagating fear, is a skill at which the media is all at sea.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
It is plain that the detectives are all at sea in this case.
From An Artist in Crime by Ottolengui, Rodrigues
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