out of joint

介词短语

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Dislocated.
    — I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint.
  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. 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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