out of action
Meaning
out of action
Unable to work or function, often due to a particular event.
Alternative names
out-of-action
Synonyms
Examples
I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Had I a dozen sons, - each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, - I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.
Air bases are likely to come under attack from some 1,500 Chinese conventional ballistic missiles in range of the island, with about 50 direct hits needed to put each one out of action.