off the beam meaning

• 1. Off the course shown by a radio beam
  2. Off the right track (figurative)
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  [American slang]
  adv. or adj. phr. 1. (Of an airplane) Not in the radio beam that marks the path to follow between airports; flying in the wrong direction. A radio signal tells the pilot of an airplane when his plane is off the beam. 2. slang Wrong; mistaken. Maud was off the beam when she said that the girls didn't like her.
  Antonym: ON THE BEAM.
  

• A radio signal tells the pilot of an airplane when his plane is off the beam
• If they get off the beam, they're in danger.
• Dominique Dawes, in her third Olympics, fell off the beam.
• Any contestant to fall off the beam would have to start over.
• "Ransom " is a bit off the beam for McPhee.
• Even the scraps of metal we shave off the beams are put aside.
• I think you're way, way, way off the beam there.
• She drops the doll, almost falls off the beam and loses the challenge.
• Either it hit the right of the foul pole or it clanked off the beam.
• In places where I have pried off the beams, the glue is very hard.

• "off the beam" meaning in Chinese: 方向错误的
• "off the beam" meaning in Japanese: 誘導電波｛ゆうどう でんぱ｝からそれて、とんちんかんな
• "off the beam" meaning in Russian: adj infml 1) That idea of yours is wrong. You're ...