off-track
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4.0
- adjective
- /ɔf træk/
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desviado
- I think I may have led us off track a little bit here.
- get off-track
And what I would say is, you know, getting off track is necessary to get on track.
- And what I would say is, you know, getting off track is necessary to get on track.
- Or changing highway signs to throw him off track, putting him onto a roundabout.
- It's so easy to fall into that to, to get off track.
- I don't know when it got so bad or how at all I went off track.
- You, you just completely throw things off track.
- The way we run those meetings is literally are you on track or off track?
- These these are things that will, will take people off track.
- And I built into my calendar the review process to see whether I'm on track or off track and to determine why.
- But where it gets off track is where we think we can short circuit a proven process.
Examples
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I don't understand how we got so far off track.
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And what I would say is, you know, getting off track is necessary to get on track.
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But if you get off track, obviously it's bad here.
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We are definitely off track here.
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With that said, it seems that your leaders are taking you off track from what your mission is.
Blog text (3) -
You recognize, do you not, that this relationship is off track, not working?
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Is there anything to this notion, or am I completely off track here?
Blog text (14) -
I try to visualize those points in history when things got off track.
Academic text (1998) -
I'm just trying to figure out how I got so far off-track.
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If we keep getting off track, we might miss our deadline.
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Etymology
A helpful way to remember off-track is to see it as off ('away') plus track ('path' or 'rail'); like a train that leaves its rails, a plan or idea that is off-track has moved away from the intended path.