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Out of hand.
If something gets out of hand, it gets out of control.
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Don't dismiss something out of hand because you think it's either beneath you or outside of the realm of where your interests lie.
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In one, Belykh appears to be counting a large sum of cash and writing something out by hand.
Nestlé insists its water use is efficient and has minimal impact on the environment – something that activists reject out of hand.
She argued that all she ever wanted was her old role back, something managers repeatedly rejected "out of hand", she said, though she had now returned to work at Tate Britain.
It was going to be a difficult day today and a tough outing for us and it was important after the defeats we have had to get something out of the hand.
Three scrawny men push another, older man around; in the end, they manage to rip something out of his hand.
Three scrawny men push another, older man around; in the end they manage to rip something out of his hand.
This can be a bit frustrating at times when something out of your hands goes wrong, but that's true for any coaching job.
I point out that this is like arguing privatisation isn't really a thing, when you're very much taking something out of public hands and transferring it to a private individual.
"The trouble with what Pac was doing, with this East Coast West Coast thing, was it was just something that got out of hand, a publicity thing, but brothers in the street think something is really going on, and they're gonna die for it," Syke contended.
A lot of the time it's just young people who are friends and something's got out of hand.
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