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off the track

  1. Derailed, of a railway carriage, etc.
  2. Away from the proper subject; irrelevant, unrelated.
  3. Not on right course; inaccurate.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 6:
      As for great men and kings being History's slaves, I think Tolstoi was off the track. Don't kid youself, kings are the most sublime sick. Manic Depressive heroes pull Mankind into their cycles and carry everybody away.

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