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Definition slip/lose your moorings in American English

slip/lose your moorings phrase

phrase
1

to lose your sense of what is right

Example

Maybe it's old-fashioned of us to want to hold financial industry leaders accountable when it's the systems themselves that have slipped their ethical moorings.

Definition slip/lose your moorings in American English