English-Italian translations for out of hand

• fuori controllo
  Signor Presidente, è una vera tragedia per l'evoluzione democratica in Togo che le elezioni presidenziali paiano ora fuori controllo. Mr President, it really is a tragedy for Togo's democratic development that the presidential election appears now to have got completely out of hand.
  Inoltre, la soglia attualmente prevista per l'attivazione del Fondo è, come diceva lei, Commissario Hübner, estremamente elevata, con la conseguenza che le deroghe stanno andando fuori controllo. Moreover, the current threshold for mobilising the fund is, as you said, Mrs Hübner, extremely high, which means that the derogations are getting out of hand.

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