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out of order

Not functioning well, not operating properly or at all, as in The oil burner is out of order again . [Mid-1500s]
Not following parliamentary procedure, as in The chair called him out of order .
Unsuitable, inappropriate, as in Her comments about the management were out of order . Also see out of line , def. 1.

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"There was no announcement whatsoever to tell us to get back on the train. It was very out of order," he said.

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Watching it play out is like reading a Brothers Grimm fairytale with all of the pages slightly out of order; a disorienting, riveting way of making the show feel as romantic as it does evil.

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A three-judge panel on the Second Circuit found that Judge Rakoff had acted out of order in announcing his position prematurely.

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They discussed potentially raising the signature threshold for a discharge petition from 218, or setting up a vote to rule this specific discharge petition—or any other to force a vote on a similar bill—out of order.

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Mr Combs's lawyers repeated their claims that the video was "deceptive" and that a visual expert had found that parts of the video were taken out of order, the actions sped up, and timestamps covered up.

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out of one's way out of phase

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