out of it

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out of it (informal)

1. Not participating in some trend or group.

   When my old friends turned up, my wife felt quite out of it.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter 3, in Jeeves in the Offing, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1963 (1975 printing), →OCLC, pages 25–26:

     This duologue had, of course, left Wilbert Cream a bit out of it, just painted on the backdrop as you might say, and for some moments, knitting his brow, plucking at his moustache, shuffling the feet and allowing the limbs to twitch, he had been giving abundant evidence that in his opinion three was a crowd and that what the leafy glade needed to make it all that a leafy glade should be was a complete absence of Woosters [myself].

2. Disoriented; not thinking clearly.

   Having the flu all week left me pretty well out of it.

4. So intoxicated (from alcohol or drugs) that one is unaware of what is going on, stupefied.
5. Asleep or unconscious.

• (not participating): aloof, excluded, left out, standoffish, uninvolved
• (disoriented): bewildered, confused, dazed, perplexed, puzzled
• (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk

• not with it
• out on one's feet
• unconscious