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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