Synonym: beyond control. Similar words: writ of habeas corpus, vault of heaven, strait of hormuz, out of, cutoff, put off, cut off, out of it. Meaning: adv. out of control.
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61. My mum used to sit nearby and make sure nothing got out of hand.
62. Reportedly it was a soup-to-nuts A-to-Z kind of thing that ISVs rejected out of hand as offering them nothing.
63. Most do only limited damage to plants, and good garden hygiene is usually adequate treatment if they get out of hand.
64. A fire, probably started in the Casino to help keep the drifters warm, got out of hand.
65. But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand.
66. Love turns ugly and even violent when jealousy gets out of hand. One can hate and kill because of love. Dr T.P.Chia 
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67. Even those who do not condemn democracy out of hand have often contrived more subtle ways of disparaging it.
68. Drinking on your own or to drown your sorrows can get out of hand.
69. It was a practical joke that got a little out of hand.
70. The Government are making a major error by dismissing local income tax out of hand.
71. Nuclear deterrence becomes nuclear holocaust when local wars get out of hand.
72. The argument for higher tariffs cannot be dismissed out of hand.
73. He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand.
74. Things got progressively out of hand, and a paramilitary group took hold of the upper Maroni region.
75. Yet why should we dismiss the idea out of hand as some advocates of megalithic spirituality seem to do?
76. Pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand.
77. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
78. Others dismissed it out of hand. Emile stuck to his story.
79. Lyndon Johnson had Congress levy a Vietnam War surtax lest the growing debt from the war and the Great Society get out of hand.
80. The venerable British confectioner rejected out of hand the American food giant’s offer, saying it “fundamentally undervalues” the company(sentencedict.com), which could continue to thrive on its own.
81. McGonagall always stands by to take the megaphone away if he gets out of hand.
82. However too many clinicians reject out of hand anything that hasn't been certified by a national multicenter peer reviewed study.
83. Speculation, if allowed to get out of hand, can produce unexpected and unsatisfactory results, and you may have a tendency to go off the deep end in handling financial matters.
84. 'You can't just dismiss this out of hand, ' says Joseph Kirschvink, a professor of geobiology at the California Institute of Technology.
85. Iter said it would be wrong to dismiss out of hand the notion that an amateur could make a difference.
86. Kuang and his troupe of tyro assassins are younger and more in over their heads than they realize, and things get emotionally and operationally out of hand with a rapidity that is stunning.
87. Preventing problems from getting out of hand is key, and officials must be sober-minded and realize the importance of safeguarding social stability, he said.
88. Another problem: Official intervention could end up encouraging more risk-taking by investors, if they start to assume the government will step in when things get out of hand.
89. In the XIX century the event got out of hand more than once and as a result the handout was first moved from the church to the poorhouse and later still to the Old Workhouse.
90. But this was rejected out of hand, largely because the savannah theory was considered unchallengeable.
More similar words: writ of habeas corpus, vault of heaven, strait of hormuz, out of, cutoff, put off, cut off, out of it, get out of, come out of, run out of, walk out of, grow out of, keep out of, out of tune, out of sync, out of order, out of work, out of date, out of debt, out of favour, talk out of, out of luck, out of place, out of touch, autofocus, drive out of, out of doors, out of sight, out of stock.