be under control

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be being dealt with successfully

   Most of our diseases were under control.

   Everything is under control, I promise you.

In the movies · 5

• Most of our diseases were under control.David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet2020
• Everything is under control, I promise you.The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023
• Luckily we were there to see that everything was under control.Once Upon a Time in America1984
• It's under control.Room2015
• Population under controlThe Purge: Anarchy2014
• ...is under control.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• I got it under control.Beasts of the Southern Wild2012
• We had it under control.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017

Learn it in full scenes

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023
  • Spike Mocks the Mario Brothers
  • Mario and Luigi's First Job
  • Mario's Family Doubts the Dream
• Beasts of the Southern Wild2012
  • Hushpuppy Describes the Bathtub
  • Wink Prepares Hushpuppy for the Storm
  • A Bathtub Funeral with No Crying

From the same entry

• be in control
• be out of control
• bring under control

More idioms

• break heart
• be too much
• don't ask
• take it for granted
• not believe your ears
• on the tip of your tongue
• one by one
• be in the same boat
• have what it takes
• give birth
• one after another other
• above all