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English Idiom: Out of it
Hello again.
Today’s idiom , out of it, can be quite useful when you want to explain how you or someone else feels after working many long days in a row.
If you are out of it, you may not know where you are or what you are doing. You may feel very disoriented and unsure of what is happening.
After working long days and getting very little sleep, we can feel out of it.
I’m sure you know what I mean.
If we get very little sleep, we may not know where we are, what we are doing, or even why we are doing it.
After not getting enough sleep, we feel similar to the way we feel after drinking alcohol.
We also use the term out of it to describe people who are drunk and not conscious of where they are or what they are doing.
Some example sentences are:
- Woah, I’ve been working 17 days straight on this research project. I can’t think anymore; I feel out of it!
- I think Mary really seems out of it. She had a little too much to drink tonight. I’m going to make sure she gets home safely.
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