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This is a simple rebus. What is this pic rebus saying?

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    $\begingroup$ 'it is better not to describe people with less PSE rep as "poor"' - from Gareth, Puzzling moderator $\endgroup$
    – bobble
    Jun 2, 2022 at 5:17
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    $\begingroup$ What is even the point of putting a bounty on a question that was asked and answered years ago? Shouldn’t this be discouraged? $\endgroup$
    – SQLnoob
    Jun 2, 2022 at 18:48
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    $\begingroup$ @SQLnoob i am super rich... points give away for poor people $\endgroup$
    – Amruth A
    Jun 3, 2022 at 7:05
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    $\begingroup$ Please stop referring to other people as "poor". $\endgroup$
    – bobble
    Jun 3, 2022 at 16:41

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Things are getting out of hand.

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    $\begingroup$ From a syntactical and admittedly semantic point of view this would read rot13("'Guvatf' vf trggvat bhg bs unaq.") $\endgroup$
    – dtich
    Dec 4, 2018 at 2:46
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    $\begingroup$ Yes, but this is a rebus, they're usually not supposed to be taken that literally. $\endgroup$
    – S. M.
    Dec 4, 2018 at 17:46
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While I feel @S. M.'s answer is the best depiction I could think of currently, the bounty suggests this is not the desired answer... It would be nice to get a solid response to their answer though.

Until then, I guess I'll try a couple of ideas as well:

Losing my grip on things

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Things are growing out of hand

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Things are getting out of control

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Letting go of things

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I'll throw in my guess

Letting things get out of hand

Which

uses the full word "things" in a syntactically and semantically correct way (I think)

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Some ideas...

If "What does this rebus say about life?", then

A double-meaning for "The best things in life are free."

If "Who does this rebus say is the boss?", then

I run things around here.

If "What famous book does this rebus represent?", then

Things Fall Apart ~ novel by Chinua Achebe

If "Should I say something, or not?", then

Some things are better left unsaid. ("Things" are literally going away from one's consciousness.)

If "Should I act on these desires?", then

Some things are best left to memories.
~ Bez

If, "How can I ever achieve great things?", then

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. ("Things" assembling themselves in one's hand.)
~ Vincent Van Gogh

I think I could go on all day with this, but I won't.

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