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Out of order

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  1. 1
    Out of normal sequence. idiomatic

    "You've got my index cards out of order again."

  2. 2
    Not functioning properly; not in working order. idiomatic

    "The lift is always out of order."

  3. 3
    Inappropriate or unsuitable. idiomatic

    "I suppose my remarks about his wife were out of order."

  4. 4
    Not in order: not according with e.g. the procedural rules governing formal meetings of a deliberative body.
  5. 5
    untidy

    "Architas Tarentinus returning from a war, where he had beene Captaine generall, found his house all out of order, husbandrie all spoiled, and by the ill government of his Bailife, his ground all waste and unmanured […]."

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