out of control
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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Contemporary Examples of out of control
A rising death toll, mass panic, scary mortality rate—what could possibly be good about the out-of-control epidemic?
Kilmer plays shy Teddy, and Nat Wolff his out-of-control friend, Fred.
It was neither the first nor the last time Bieber would be characterized as a petulant, out-of-control little jerk.
These people really have created an out-of-control Frankenstein in this base.
The day after Thanksgiving brings huge sales, long lines—and some out-of-control crowds.
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