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out of step

Meaning

Not matching the movement of one's feet with that of others, or with an accompanying beat, while marching or walking.
At the march-past, little Johnny was out of step with everyone else.

(figuratively) Not matching or in agreement (with someone or something).
Synonym: out of tune
The government is increasingly out of step with public opinion.

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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. Kim Novak

The fundamentalist position on biblical interpretation, with its emphasis on the explicit, complete, final, and authoritarian nature of Scripture, is a very late, minority view quite out of step with the Western tradition. Carroll Quigley

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. John Templeton

Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswell we begin to look at ourselves. Peter Jennings

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step. Christopher Eccleston

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