Examples of 'wide of the mark' in a sentence
Meaning of "wide of the mark"
wide of the mark - This phrase means that something is inaccurate or incorrect. It suggests that a statement or action missed the intended target or expectation
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- Of a projectile: missing the target.
- (Very) inaccurate.
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wide of the mark
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
The claims that Johnson did not understand his own deal are wide of the mark.
This is very wide of the mark.
The best efforts at quantifying it seem so often wide of the mark.
Very wide of the mark.
Such remarks are also wide of the mark.
Less wide of the mark.
This criticism is somewhat wide of the mark.
I am wide of the mark.
All of his answers were wide of the mark.
Many bones fall wide of the mark others lack the height.
I am afraid your guess is wide of the mark.
It amazes me how wide of the mark you can be about Tristan.
I am afraid your prediction was wide of the mark.
You are wide of the mark.
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Their estimate of the cost was wide of the mark.
We are still wide of the mark.
But this idea of evolution as benign is extraordinarily wide of the mark.
He was not so wide of the mark.
That suggests that predictions of a March election are wide of the mark.
You were wide of the mark.
That explanation is not completely wide of the mark.
I may have been a little wide of the mark about Catherine Donnelly.
Your assumptions about me are very wide of the mark.
Others are wide of the mark.
He now cheerfully acknowledges that he was well wide of the mark.
And you would be wide of the mark.
In the past three general elections, professional pollsters have fallen wide of the mark.
That their first shots fell very far wide of the mark could hardly be helped.
To put it bluntly, these crude propaganda-driven reports are very wide of the mark.
But the arrow went wide of the mark.
Considering its intended target though, it went wide of the mark.
Dolores was not so wide of the mark.
As it turned out, this cosy assumption was somewhat wide of the mark.
The arrow went very wide of the mark.
Somewhere in this turmoil thought struggles on, it too wide of the mark.
Theory that was hopelessly wide of the mark.
If you think you are being funny, you are pretty wide of the mark.
What you say is quite wide of the mark.
They will not help avert the crisis, because they are shooting wide of the mark.
Then of course you really are wide of the mark.
I know, but Mr Wallis did put forward a theory that was hopelessly wide of the mark.
But it appears both reports are well wide of the mark.
We envisaged a modest event involving 30 to 50 persons but we were wide of the mark.
Of course, that is going very wide of the mark.
This line of thinking, this argument, is therefore wide of the mark.
Keep him from swinging … too wide of the mark.
The Greek answer is incomplete, but not wholly wide of the mark.
For me then, The Marked fell wide of the mark.
Second, forecasts by the ‘ experts ' are often well wide of the mark.
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