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Definition slip/lose your moorings in British English

slip/lose your moorings phrase

phrase
1

to lose your sense of what is right

Example

The Church of England has launched a fierce new attack on bankers accusing them of greed and having "slipped their moral moorings".

Definition slip/lose your moorings in British English