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Getting lost

Getting lost is the occurrence of a person or animal losing spatial reference. This situation consists of two elements: the feeling of disorientation and a spatial component. Getting lost is a popular expression to explain that someone is in a desperate situation.

Usage examples of "getting lost".

And remember, if you get any ideas about not keeping up with us, or of getting lost, Jelindra will be staying with us, even if you do not.

To keep it from getting lost, he slipped it on his finger and held up his hand for the dwarves to see.

Trimbak Rao had warned his students of a great many of the complications involved in the several routes leading into the City and out of it, and of the danger of their getting lost if they should deviate from the course he had planned for them to the small park and back.

Tucking Wingover under her arm, Kitiara took to sprinting far ahead, relying on the gnome's far-seeing to keep them from getting lost.

The kind of man you wouldn't trust to walk across a small town without getting lost on the way.

She tried to focus on the traffic and the driving directions that the ever-thorough and reliable Wilma Pilut had provided for her, not so much out of the fear of getting lost but the better to shut out Teddy Tumtum's nittering.

Following had nothing to do with fear of getting lost in that rabbit warren of streets.