out of joint
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint."
- "Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint."
- "The time is out of ioynt, O curſed ſpite, / That euer I was borne to ſet it right, […]"
- "If the time is out of joint, have I any calling or strength to set it right?"
- "Her stepmother had whimsical moods; and if Cynthia displeased her, she would oppress Molly with small kindnesses and pseudo-affection. Or else everything was wrong, the world was out of joint, and Molly had failed in her mission to set it right, and was to be blamed accordingly."
- "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."