get out of hand

if a situation gets out of hand, it cannot be controlled any more Things got a little out of hand at the party and three windows were broken. In my first year at college my drinking got a bit out of hand.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Motke	-	Yiddish
Grigori	gree-GO-ree	Russian
Ragnar	RAHNG-nahr (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Ithel	-	Welsh
Bryson	['braisn]
Ambakoum	-	Biblical Greek