be out of sorts

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Rangnick will also have noted that for all United's defensive intentions in that first half, they were careless in possession and invited Chelsea pressure, especially Bruno Fernandes as he continues to be out of sorts.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2021

Like most old people, he liked his ease, and was apt to be out of sorts, if meals were kept waiting.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various

So would you be out of sorts if you'd lost your run and had to pick a young woman out of the water.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony

You would as soon expect a pine-tree to be out of sorts, as his hard, honest face, and muscular frame.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

Surely Selby must be out of sorts to talk like that.

From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Reed, Talbot Baines