under control

idiom

: able to be handled or managed with success : not out of control

She remained calm and kept the situation under control.

A year after the divorce, he finally got his life back under control.

The firefighters got the fire under control.

You need to get your drinking/gambling/anger under control.

Examples of under control in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So, too, would economic malaise: a sense that the President had failed to bring inflation, health-care costs, and rents under control. —E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024

The fire department said the fire was contained but still not under control. —Landon Mion, Fox News, 27 June 2024

While that may be good news for Singaporeans looking for a new place to live, it’s been harder on the city’s property companies and real estate developers, several of which reported steep drops in profit as the Singaporean government tried to get the market under control. —Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Asia, 24 June 2024

The Fed wants to slow the economy by just enough through high interest rates to get inflation under control. —Stan Choe, Fortune, 18 June 2024