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out from under
Idioms and Phrases
Free from difficulties, especially from a burden of debts or work. For example, They've been using credit cards for everything and don't know how they'll get out from under , or We have loads of mail to answer, but we'll soon get out from under . This idiom uses under in the sense of “in a position of subjection.” [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
The ground falls out from under her feet.
She managed to crawl out from under the rubble and her husband also made it out alive.
Walz said that the president has captured a group of voters whose "economic future is so precarious it could slip out from under them" and charged the party with crafting a message that grabs those people.
The world has repeatedly pulled the rug out from under them, so many are struggling with financial insecurity regardless of their actual net worth.
He isn’t allowed to become the play’s villain despite his selfish plan to sell the estate out from under his family.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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