It was only after descending the other side of the pass that I discovered exactly why. My back brakes were out of kilter and had been clamped against the rear wheel the whole way from Tashkent.
The regulatory mechanism of the native urbanite, in other words, seems to be out of kilter.
His views are out of kilter with world opinion.
Her lifestyle was out of kilter with her politics.
Long flights throw my sleeping pattern out of kilter for days.
When they write of their childhoods, it could be a description of a gifted child's life - confused about social cues, self-conscious and out of kilter with the interests and language of their peers.
Even if speculators do sometimes push prices out of kilter the fundamentals soon regain the upper hand.