out of control

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

Energy costs, meanwhile, are spiraling out of control.

From Barron's

Wars, once started, sometimes spiral out of control.

From Slate

Warren had denied being the owner of a dog named Bear that caused injury resulting in death while dangerously out of control in a private place, and to being in charge of another dog named Beauty, which did the same.

From BBC

Many of his clients are opting instead to travel to the Caribbean and to Mexico, which is “absolutely out of control for us this year,” with resorts packed with Canadians, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

"Parliament's restoration project is out of control, and the public should be as angry about it as I am," Badenoch said.

From BBC