out of control
no longer in control of something or someone
difficult to control a situation
be chaotic or unmanageable
be in an unruly state
When the police arrived, they realised the party was getting out of hand.
Jane and Sarah had a disagreement that suddenly got out of hand and then everyone was shouting.
Their kids need some discipline, they are getting completely out of hand.
Two of the children started fighting in the playground yesterday. It wasn’t long before it all got out of hand.
The farmer was trying to get all the sheep into the barn when it all got out of hand and they ended up in the road.
I thought it would be a good idea to bake some buns with my small nephews, but it got out of hand and took me 2 hours to clean up the mess.
We’re going to look at that and, if there’s something that was out of hand, then we’ll deal with it.
Soon, the situation went out of hand.
The authorities concede that the viral outbreak “has gone out of hand.”
How do I not let this get out of hand, and what is out of hand anymore?
There is no origin for this idiom
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