out of sorts

1. Irritable, grouchy, as in Don't ask him today—he's out of sorts. This expression also implies that one's poor spirits result from feeling slightly ill. [Early 1600s] The synonym out of humor, on the other hand, used more in Britain than America, simply means “ill-tempered” or “irritable.” [Mid-1600s]

Example Sentences

Contrastingly, the experiment with Emma Lamb, picked on domestic form as an opener but asked to bat at number six, did not work as she managed 36 runs in five innings, while Sophia Dunkley also looked out of sorts with 68 in six knocks.

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Apart from publicly flagging this up as a potential area of weakness in his Liverpool side, the Dutchman now needs to turn his attention to the desperate efforts of his own players, who were vulnerable, exposed, flat and thoroughly out of sorts.

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Doubting world-class players is always a dangerous occupation, but Salah has looked out of sorts this season, left out of the Champions League defeat by Galatasaray in Istanbul, then being substituted here with Liverpool trying to rescue a point.

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Jones' fifty at the top of the order puts a tick in one box, and though the openers negotiated the new ball and added 73 for the first wicket, Tammy Beaumont looks out of sorts.

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But Piastri, who has looked out of sorts all weekend, was not quick and he ended up 0.574secs off the pace, and behind Mercedes' George Russell and the second Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton.

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