lose it

Definitions

1. 1

   To be overcome with emotion.

   • When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just lost it.
2. 2

   To cease to have a skill or ability, to lose one's touch, to be washed up.

   • When you think about all she's done for the sport, it's kind of sad, but she's completely lost it over the past few years.
3. 3

   To lose control of a situation.

   • Even then, she defended everything she had sought to achieve, saying she had “the right policies at the wrong time”. “That’s when I thought ‘she’s totally lost it’,” said a former aide.
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   1. 4

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, it.

      • ‘I’m Inspector Harper, Leeds police. Where did you lose it?’ / ‘Lose it?’ He laughed. ‘I’d never lose this. It was stolen.’

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