off course en · ADP · etymology 1
Meanings
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Not following the planned, or intended, route.
Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
Deriveds
Translations (5)
es fuera de curso (not following the planned route) · fi reitiltä sivussa (not following the planned route) · sv ur kurs (not following the planned route) · pl w złym kierunku (not following the planned route) · fi reitiltä sivuun (not following the planned route)