| 释义 |
off beam, off-beam, phr., a., and adv. colloq.
Also off the beam.
[f. off prep., off- 4 b + beam n.1 24 c.]
On the wrong track; wrong, mistaken.
1951‘J. Tey’ Daughter of Time ix. 121 ‘He's away off the beam. Away off.’ ‘I suspected as much. Let us have the facts.’ 1958Woman 20 Sept. 4/4 Funny how we all get off-beam ideas of each other, isn't it? 1960Spectator 20 May 729 My thinking, which was quite off-beam, convinced me at that time that the man was a charlatan. 1973Guardian 15 Feb. 14/4 Mr. Patrick is far from off⁓beam in tracing connections between environment and the behaviour he describes. 1977Time Out 17–23 June 10/3 ‘A Question of Ulster’ was not only way off beam for explanation, it was also five years ago. |