out of practice

English

Prepositional phrase

out of practice

1. (of a person) Diminished in proficiency, especially in exercising a skill, due to disuse or a lack of recent experience.

   I don't think I can play a tune on the piano any more; I'm completely out of practice.

Synonyms

• rusty

Translations

(of a person) diminished in proficiency, especially in exercising a skill, due to disuse or a lack of recent experience

• Galician: desadestrado m, desadestrada f
• Hungarian: kijött a gyakorlatból
• Polish: (wyjść) z wprawy
• Spanish: desentrenado (es) m, desentrenada (es) f

References

• “out of practice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.