off the mark en · ADP
Meanings
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(figuratively) Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate.
Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.
2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.
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Making a start (generally in comparison to others).
Sarafov was the first off the mark, but the other divisions did not jump off until an hour later and achieved nothing.
2017, E. R. Hooton, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, page iv:
Antonyms
on the dot · on the money · on the mark · bang on
Coordinates
Relateds
get off the mark · out of the gate · on your marks
Synonyms
off target · off-track · wide of the mark · off base
Translations (15)
es lejos de la marca (inaccurate) · it inappropriato (inaccurate) · de auf dem falschen Dampfer (inaccurate) · es equivocado (inaccurate) · sv vara ute och cykla (inaccurate) · pl błędny (inaccurate) · fr à côté de la plaque (inaccurate) · ja 的外れ (inaccurate) · pl mylny (inaccurate) · pl nietrafny (inaccurate) · ga i bhfad ón sprioc (inaccurate) · es fuera de la marca (inaccurate) · fi asian vierestä (inaccurate) · nl de plank misslaan (inaccurate) · is vera úti að aka (inaccurate)