To “get out of hand” is an idiom for something that is “out of control.” “Nothing gets out of hand quicker these days than money” is a joke that has been cited in print since May 1977, when it was credited to Broadus Street.
9 May 1977, Bucks County Courier Times (Levittown, PA), pg. 1, col. 6:
Nothing gets out of hand quicker these days than money.
15 May 1977, Sunday Chronicle (Augusta, GA), “John Barnes’ Our Town,” pg. 3C, col. 6:
UNQUOTE: “Nothing gets out of hand quicker these days than money.”—Broadus Street.
13 March 1980, Lockhart (TX) Post-Register, “Club News,” pg. 5C, col. 4:
Mrs. E. B. Sanders read the “Thought for the Day”—“Nothing gets out of hand faster than money.”
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Nothing gets out of hand quicker these days than money.
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