Out of touch means not in contact, not up to date, unaware of real life. Literally: We were out of touch for years, so we didn't talk for years. About news: I felt out of touch with the news. About people in power, it's criticism: The committee is out of touch with the daily problems of commuters, meaning it has no idea how people live.
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be out of touch with + people / current conditions; an out-of-touch + person
- The old housing policy is out of touch with what young families need.
- After several months without internet, I felt out of touch with the news.
- We were out of touch for years before meeting again at a concert.
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First versionThe committee is out of touch to the daily problems of commuters.
RevisionThe committee is out of touch with the daily problems of commuters.
Blind to and deaf to the problems both take to, so to slips in here too: out of touch to the problems. But the contact in this expression is always joined with with: out of touch with the problems. With to changed to with, the sentence is correct.
Lose touch means to lose contact, a process: We lost touch after school. Be out of touch is the resulting state. Out of date means old, about things and information: an out-of-date map. Out of touch is about people and decisions that haven't kept up with life.
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The manager does not understand current conditions: She is out of touch ___ life on the shop floor.
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with — After out of touch, the connection is joined with with: out of touch with life on the shop floor. To doesn't fit here.
Describe a rule at your school or workplace that ignores real life in one sentence with out of touch with.
Our office dress code is out of touch with how people actually work today.
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