bent out of shape
Example Sentences
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When the picture returns a blade of the drone's propeller at the back of the aircraft can be seen bent out of shape.
From BBC
“The economic and security structures developed after the Second World War and then the Cold War have been bent out of shape so far that they have enabled rather than contained aggression.”
From Seattle Times
She said that while economists were right to be concerned about high inflation, “I don’t think similar voices were this bent out of shape about high unemployment.”
From New York Times
My husband got all bent out of shape and said to our child that he guesses they can no longer play that game.
From Washington Post
Yet these bloviators, as Ms. Dvorak correctly described one of them, get all bent out of shape about having their macho-ness threatened by getting a little needle jab and being asked to wear a mask.
From Washington Post
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