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out of control

Meaning

Not under control.
The economy is out of control and is headed for a crash.

Not controllable.
The airplane went out of control after its flight-control system failed.

Not in control of one's actions.
Your children are completely out of control. Can you stop them running around like that?

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out-of-control

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Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. Jesse Ventura

The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. Donald Trump

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control. Terry Eagleton

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. Eduard Shevardnadze

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. Ted Nugent

The problem with managing either a business or a prison by periodic rather than continuous inspection is that the "variables" are likely to be seriously out of control before the discrepancy is noted. Anthony Stafford Beer

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