outta touch

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1. UScolloquialpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of out of touch.

   Fun fact 1996 was the last time she actually drove her own car. So outta touch.

   2022 September 7, Andrew Court, quoting @Rdkill762, “Hillary Clinton roasted for ‘The View’ spot, Trump comments: ‘Out-of-touch’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2022

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   The minute he [Danny] plunged into the terminal (spooked at noticing how Miami International Airport’s luggage is abbreviated “MIA”), he sensed he’d wandered onto the set of a disaster film. Something awful had happened, he just knew. And it’d gone and happened without him. He saw strangers bunched around newspapers: “TEL AVIV BOMBED AGAIN!” “I’ve been punished.” So ran his first egocentric paranoid-sounding and utterly familiar thought. Was some joke being played on him? He buttonholed a stranger; he admitted with a shame greater than any sexual shame, “I’m afraid I’ve been . . . outta . . . touch.”

   1991 December 31, Allan Gurganus, “Relax, It’s Almost Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015

   I don't feel a single thing / Have the pills done too much / Haven't caught up with my friends in weeks / And now we're outta touch

   2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, performed by Em Beihold

   [Slate:] What are your thoughts on this man's music? [Day:] I don't know it. [Slate:] You don't? [Day:] Because I'm old. [Slate:] Oh, I love it. [Examiner:] Is that true? Telling the truth? [Day:] Yeah. I'm just a little outta touch. I think I saw him maybe perform on SNL, but I don't recall the songs.

   2022 February 9, “Charlie Day & Jenny Slate Take Lie Detector Tests”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2022

   Well, listening to employees is really key. A lot of us have these employers who are totally outta touch.

   2022 September 13, Elise Hu, “Paid Post by Accenture — Reimagining the Future of Work”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2022