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lose the plot
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lose the plot (三人称単数 現在形 loses the plot, 現在分詞 losing the plot, 過去形および過去分詞形 lost the plot)
- (UK, colloquial) To cease to behave in a consistent and/or rational manner.
- (UK, colloquial) To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.
- 1995, John Frank Williams, The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913–1939[losing], page 219:
- But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.
- 2007, Colin James Isbister, The Body of Christ[losing], page 99:
- Because of this it seems to me that we have somehow lost the plot and we're in desperate need of balance. The idea of Protestant ministers touching the body of Christ (the bread) with great love and tenderness like the priest described is almost incomprehensible.
- 2011, House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs, 2nd Report of Session 2010-11: Auditors: Market Concentration and Their Role, Volume II: Evidence, page 19,
- [Professor Fearnley:] If I can perhaps be a little unkind about my profession — which is fair enough I suppose — I think the accountancy profession, along with other professions, loses the plot from time to time and has to be pulled back from what it was doing before.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, plot.
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