LOSE ONE'S GRIP Definition & Meaning

lose one's grip

Fail to maintain control or one's ability to function, as in Ted wasn't running things the way he used to, and his boss thought he might be losing his grip , or I thought I was losing it when I couldn't remember the words to that old song . The first term dates from the mid-1800s, the slangy variant from the mid-1900s.
Fail to keep one's composure, as in When Billy broke the window, Dad just lost his grip and let him have it , or I just can't deal with this many visitors鈥擨 must be losing it . [ Slang ; first half of 1900s] Also see lose one's temper .

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To redden and blow is to lose one鈥檚 grip on reality鈥攖he act of yelling is either played for laughs or it鈥檚 indicative of some pathological fissure.

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鈥淭he Bell Jar鈥� is about the way this country was in the 1950s and about the way it is to lose one鈥檚 grip on sanity and recover it again.

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Annoyance is a fact of life; one ought not to lose one鈥檚 grip because of it, and in doing so Penelope realized she had made a grave and potentially catastrophic error.

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Losing a sense of time is an easy way to lose one鈥檚 grip and even one鈥檚 sanity.

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But to rely on them for truth is to lose one's grip on what is continuous and whole.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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lose oneself in lose one's head

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