English Dictionary

out of joint

prep_phrase

(anatomy) Dislocated. / (by extension) Chaotic, disordered, out of control. / Not in harmony, in step or in line (with something).

He fell off the ladder and his shoulder was out of joint.

意味（1）

(anatomy) Dislocated.

I fell over and put my shoulder out of joint.

意味（2）

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

The time is out of ioynt, O curſed ſpite, / That euer I was borne to ſet it right, […]

意味（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.