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Out of joint

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  1. 1
    Dislocated.

    "I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint."

  2. 2
    Chaotic, disordered, out of control. broadly

    "The time is out of ioynt, O curſed ſpite, / That euer I was borne to ſet it right, […]"

  3. 3
    Not in harmony, in step or in line (with something).

    "While the Kremlin at Moscow exhales a paradoxical sympathy with this renewal of old tradition, Leningrad seems out of joint with Bolshevism and wears a sad air, as though mourning for an interlude which is past."

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