off course
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- Not following the planned, or intended, route.
- The strong winds made the car go careering off course.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not following the planned route
Etymology 2[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- Misspelling of of course.