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Mr. Tom Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Use of 'out of kilter'

Hi

I often see the idiom 'out of kilter' in our newspapers.

The government is completely out of kilter with...

I want to know how common this expression is among native speakers (both in spoken and written English).

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=out+of+kilter&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cout%20of%20kilter%3B%2Cc0

Thanks,

Tom
  

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It is not rare. Neither is it something I hear every day.

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  • Neither is it something I hear every day.
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It is not rare. Neither is it something I hear every day.
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I wouldn't consider it odd to hear out of kilter, or off-kilter. I think I'm more likely to say out of whack, though.
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