out of hand
beyond control

Step came back and took the paper out of his hand.

And who will take him out of my hand then?

She took the book out of my hand and saw what I was reading.

Finally she went and took the phone out of his hand.

How can everything have got out of hand so quickly?

What started as a good thing, however, may be getting out of hand.

And to try to do something before things got out of hand.

He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand.

Things started to get out of hand, as they lost their next three games.

For the first time my voice was getting out of hand.