lose one's touch No longer be able to do or handle something
skillfully. For example, I used to make beautiful cakes but I
seem to have lost my touch, or Dad had a real knack for letting
someone down gently, but he's lost his touch. This expression
alludes to the older sense of touch as a musician's skill on an
instrument or an artist's skill in using a brush or chisel.
[First half of 1900s] Also see lose touch. |a printed
punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed
to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!),
indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a
rhetorical question.| |a fool or simpleton; ninny.|