out of control

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Example Sentences

“They are making it impossible to build a reasonably priced car, the unchecked and unbalanced homeless catastrophe, & the cost of EVERYTHING, in particular groceries, IS OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

From Los Angeles Times

Global efforts to directly fund local organizations are not moving quickly enough to prevent a public health disaster from continuing to spiral out of control.

From Salon

Meanwhile, global efforts to directly fund local organizations are not moving quickly enough to prevent a public health disaster from continuing to spiral out of control.

From Salon

He pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dog which caused injury leading to death while dangerously out of control in a public place.

From BBC

Farhat Ajaz, 62, of Bordesley Close, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing at Birmingham Crown Court to three counts of owning a dog which caused injury while dangerously out of control.

From BBC