be out of
phr. v..phr. v.. to have no more of something left because you have used it all.
phr. v.. to have exhausted a supply of a specific commodity or resource; functions as a stative phrasal verb indicating a lack of availability.
We are out of milk, so I need to go to the shop.
The printer is out of ink again, which is very annoying when I have a deadline.
By the third day of the hike, the group was completely out of clean water and had to find a nearby stream.
- Particles
- out of
- Separability
- inseparable
- Pattern
- be + out + of + object
usually followed by a noun representing the resource that is missing.
contrast with 'run out of' (the process of using the supply) versus 'be out of' (the state of having none left).
We are out milk.We are out of milk.the preposition 'of' is necessary to connect the state to the specific item that is missing.