OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 34970

lose the plot

Meanings (ES + gloss)
perder el norte
To lose sight of an important objective or principle; to act contrarily to one's own interests through concentrating on relatively unimportant matters.
Because of this it seems to me that we have somehow lost the plot and we're in desperate need of balance. The idea of Protestant ministers touching the body of Christ (the bread) w…
But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise o…
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