out of touch

déconnecté de la réalité

Qui comprend mal les conditions réelles de vie ou les besoins des autres.

En anglais simple : If you do not understand real conditions or other people’s lives, your ideas may be unrealistic.

• These leaders are out of touch with ordinary people.
• His rent estimate showed how out of touch he was.
• Do you think the committee is out of touch with reality?

Comment l'utiliser : out of touch with something (The board seems out of touch with workers’ needs.)

Synonymes : unrealistic, disconnected

Contraires : realistic

Expressions courantes : completely out of touch, seem out of touch

sans contact

Se dit de personnes qui ne se parlent plus et ne s’écrivent plus.

En anglais simple : If people no longer speak or write to each other, they are no longer in contact.

• We have been out of touch for months.
• She was out of touch with her cousins until last summer.
• Have you been out of touch since he moved?

Comment l'utiliser : out of touch with someone (I have been out of touch with Sam for years.)

Synonymes : not in contact

Contraires : in touch

Expressions courantes : be out of touch, stay out of touch

dépassé, démodé

Qui connaît mal les modes et les goûts actuels et semble avoir des idées vieillies.

En anglais simple : If you know little about current fashions or popular interests, your ideas seem old.

• My uncle seems out of touch with modern fashion.
• I felt out of touch when everyone discussed the latest singers.
• Are these old jokes making us look out of touch?

Comment l'utiliser : out of touch with something (He is out of touch with current music.)

Synonymes : behind the times, outdated

Contraires : up to date

Expressions courantes : seem out of touch, be out of touch