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10 avr. 2013 · 4. If something is not in your control, it could be: @EdwinAshworth, unbiddable and self-regulating work for me too, but "unharnessable" sounds like something out of everyone's control, not just ours (like a runaway horse!) :-) unharnessable, ungovernable,unmanageable, unbiddable, self-regulating ...
17 sept. 2021 · Out of their hands: used to say that one cannot control something. This can be interpreted as a defendant not being able to control something, but someone else might be able to. In this case, perhaps if the defendant were not negligent, or possessed some other authority or skill, the situation would be in their hands. Beyond their control:
1 mai 2011 · In English, span has mostly fallen out of use in favor of spun for both the past participle and simple past forms. This is a form of paradigm leveling. It has occurred in other words like sting (no stang) but not in ring (where we do have rang). The OED actually gives your quote as follows:
21 mai 2024 · 1. The only difference is that including of is more careful speech while excluding it is looser, but it’s very minimal. Kind of like the difference between what’s he doing and what is he doing. It doesn’t just apply with the phrase out of the way. You could also say It fell out (of) my window for instance, and it applies to off too: her ...
9 mars 2018 · -Out of hand -- "If you reject an offer or idea 'out of hand,' you do so without hesitation. However, this phrase has several different meanings, the oldest of them being 'out of control,' from the days when failure to keep a firm grip on the reins would result in a team of horses being 'out of hand.'
22 déc. 2017 · 3. A common term for events 'out of our control' is "force majeure", with some further examples on Wikipedia. This term is especially common in the insurance industry, where it is used as an 'escape' clause to avoid paying out on insurance claims, for natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and in the legal industry, where a party ...
8 juil. 2018 · Complete or overwhelming control: in France, supermarkets have less of a stranglehold on food supplies ODO. If you're still not happy with it, consider: chokehold. 1: a hold that involves strong choking pressure applied to the neck of another. 2: absolute dominance or control : had a chokehold on the city's finances M-W. throttlehold
10 juil. 2018 · The idiomatic preposition phrase "out of control" can't be used predicatively, as in your example. "Make" is used here as a complex-intransitive verb ("cause to be") and it resists PPs like "out of control" as PC. Thus "It makes that out of control" is borderline at best. The adjective "difficult" is fine, though. – BillJ. Jul 10, 2018 at 17:51.
Some traditional grammars categorize the word "out"--depending on how it is used--as either a preposition, or as an adverb, or as a part of a complex preposition, etc. Modern grammars usually categorize the word "out" differently. In some of these grammars, some traditional adverbs (such as "out") have been re-categorized as being purely as ...
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