in the grip of en · ADP
Meanings
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Overwhelmed or controlled by something adverse.
I couldn't enjoy life while I was in the grip of drug abuse.
At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, pages 61–62:
Translations (3)
de gelenkt von (not controlled by one's own clear mind) · de gepackt (overwhelmed, gripped (idiomatic, figurative)) · de getrieben von (not controlled by one's own clear mind)