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

Radio signals can also be jammed, so incoming drones lose direction or go out of control.

From Barron's

The truck, Palepu later said in a court filing, “went out of control.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Accident happened as the vehicle went out of control, due to cruise-control malfunction,” he said in a court filing.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said that a plan is needed to avoid credit card debt from spinning out of control.

From MarketWatch

It’s now completely out of control.

From The Wall Street Journal