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1885 C. A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy v. 33 I was too weak to walk that far on account of my back being out of whack.

1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne viii. 79 My stomach seems to be out of whack.

1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise vi. 146 At last he utterly gets his thinker out of whack an' goes back to the villa.

1918 H. A. Vachell Some Happenings xii. 205 His liver is out of whack and no mistake.

1969 ‘V. Packer’ Don't rely on Gemini (1970) xviii. 150 Margaret had had symptoms of early menopause last winter: that had thrown her way out of whack, could conceivably explain such erratic and erotic behaviour.

1906 McClure's Mag. Feb. 34 Being able to get at any part of the mechanism which may be ‘out of whack’ is important.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xi. 77 The phone in the apartment was out of whack.

1949 Time 30 May 53/2 With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack.

1975 New Yorker 28 Apr. 40/3 He sends no message on the tape recorder to the little boys, because they have already put the machine out of whack.

1985 Mail on Sunday 3 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 20/2 The body's like an automobile. You have to rest and repair it, not run with the motor out of whack.

1952 C. Armstrong Black-eyed Stranger xiv. 117 Ambielli's got principles. They are a little off, slightly out of whack.

1973 in G. Gibson Eleven Canad. Novelists 123 I don't know whether it is because my own sense of sexual timing or whatever is out of ‘whack’ with everybody else's.

1975 M. Amis Dead Babies v. 33 Everything is out of whack at Appleseed Rectory; its rooms are without bearing and without certainty.

1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 250 In the next decade..the bad loans and poor investment management would..start to throw the cash-flow projections out of whack.