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out of joint

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Source Word

out of joint

Prepositional phrase

broadly

Japanese Meaning

（解剖学的に）脱臼している / （比喩的に）混沌としている、秩序を欠いている、制御が効かない状態 / 調和していない、同調していない、連動していない状態

What is this buttons?

After the fall, his shoulder was out of joint and he needed urgent medical attention.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

転倒後、彼の肩は脱臼しており、緊急の医療処置が必要だった。

Sense（1）

(anatomy) Dislocated.

I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Sense（2）

(by extension) Chaotic, disordered, out of control.

Sense（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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

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