Meaning of out of joint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Dislocated.
2. Chaotic, disordered, out of control.
   broadly
3. Not in harmony, in step or in line (with something).

Equivalents

Examples

“I fell over and put⟳ my shoulder out of joint.”

“Fla[via]. Come⟳, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come⟳, you and I'll go play⟳ at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match⟳ i'faith. I love⟳ that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use⟳ it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.”

“The time is out of ioynt, O curſed ſpite, / That euer I was borne to ſet it right, […]”

“If the time is out of joint, have⟳ I any calling or strength to set⟳ it right?”

“Her stepmother had whimsical moods; and if Cynthia displeased her, she would oppress Molly with small kindnesses and pseudo-affection. Or else everything was wrong, the world was out of joint, and Molly had failed in her mission to set⟳ it right, and was to be blamed accordingly.”

“While the Kremlin at Moscow exhales a paradoxical sympathy with this renewal of old tradition, Leningrad seems out of joint with Bolshevism and wears a sad air, as though mourning for an interlude which is past.”

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