It's vitally important that he meet with Ms. Currie at this point, because he knows his whole operation is coming unglued.

CNN

If it were to go down, either through economic collapse or a terrorist atrocity, then the cities are going to become unglued.

CNN: Survivalists get ready for meltdown

It has everything to do with attempting to get to the bottom of a situation in which what a candidate is saying seems to have come unglued from the stubborn facts.

CNN: Mitt Romney vs. stubborn facts

The weapon sound effects are all very crisp, and they had me unglued from my chair as I played long into the night -- no doubt waking all my light-sleeping neighbors.

CNN: Unreal Tournament: Unreal multiplayer action

Some of the members were close to coming unglued.

NPR: Political Fireworks Erupt in Washington over Iraq

On the other hand, people who respond with immediate terror or who become "emotionally unglued" after the event are much more likely to continue having difficulties as the months and years roll on.

CNN: PTSD: Know the symptoms and when to get help

After rising 7%, the yuan again stopped appreciating in early August as the world economy threatened to come unglued and as investors fled the euro for the dollar, which rose sharply on a trade-weighted basis.

ECONOMIST: Free trade and the yuan

But Couples became unglued on the seventh hole, when he sent his approach shot over the back of the green, chipped off the front side, then watched an uphill putt slide up and then back down.

WSJ: At the Masters Saturday, A Little Bit Of Everything

Europe could come unglued.

FORBES: Money Creation Betrays Fed Insanity

Nothing can disguise the problems facing a new orchestra of foreigners playing to an unsophisticated audience in an 864-seat concert hall (a standard hall seats about 2, 500), at the mercy of a single corporate sponsor (the state oil company, Petronas), and in a tropical climate that makes instruments come unglued.

ECONOMIST: The Malaysian Philharmonic