take out of context

English

Verb

take (something) out of context

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To report (something) without taking into account the context in which it occurred.

   The statistics are not very meaningful when taken out of context.

Translations

to report out of context

• Chinese: 

  Mandarin: 斷章取義 (cmn), 断章取义 (cmn) (duànzhāngqǔyì)

• Finnish: irrottaa asiayhteydestä (fi)

• French: décontextualiser (fr)
• Russian: вырывать из контекста (vyryvátʹ iz kontéksta) impf., вырвать из контекста (výrvatʹ iz kontéksta) pf.