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Idiom be at a loss to not know what to do or say.He won't accept financial help from me so I'm at a loss to know what to do. (usually + to do something) For once I found myself completely at a loss for words. (= I did not know what to say)
be at a lossTo be uncertain of how to proceed or what to do or think. Your behavior is absolutely unacceptable. I'm at a loss as to what to do with you. Now that the whole schedule has been rearranged, I'm at a loss. at a loss, to beTo be puzzled or unable to come to a decision. The English clergyman Charles Colton (ca. 1780–1832) wrote, “As completely at a loss as a Dutchman without his pipe, a Frenchman without his mistress, an Italian without his fiddle, or an Englishman without his umbrella” (Lacon, Part 2, no. 116). One may also be at a loss for something, most often at a loss for words, meaning that one is rendered speechless. |