off the mark

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off the mark

  1. (figuratively) Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate.
    His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.
  2. Making a start (generally in comparison to others).
    • 2017, E. R. Hooton, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, page iv:
      Sarafov was the first off the mark, but the other divisions did not jump off until an hour later and achieved nothing.

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