English-Estonian translations for out of hand

• käest ära
  Stiimulid ja sanktsioonid tuleb tuua järgmisse etappi nii, et sanktsioone kasutataks enne, kui olukord käest ära läheb. Incentives and sanctions must be brought upstream so that action is deployed before the situation gets out of hand.
  Hr juhataja, me peaksime jääma arutelu pidades rahulikuks, kuid käesolev arutelu on läinud käest ära ja on sõna otseses mõttes tuulest viidud, ning koos sellega on kadunud ausus ja ratsionaalsus. Mr President, well, we are supposed to stay cool when following a debate, but this debate has got out of hand and it has literally gone with the wind, and with it has gone honesty and rationalism.

Definition of out of hand

• Without thought or consideration
• Immediately, forthwith, or incontinently.John Rider. Dictionarie, Corrected and Augmented with the Addition of Many Hundred Words Now Newly Corr. and Much Augm. by Francis Holy-Oke [https://books.google.com/books?id=vdVMAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP240 ] 1640 pub. Waterstone
• Not under control

Examples

• Clean things as you go so that the mess does not get out of hand.

Related words

• outside of that
• out of phase
• out of character
• out of whack
• outside of what
• get out of hand
• get out of harm's way
• eat out of someone's hand
• pull out of the hat