blow off course
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.52 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He deserves every credit for establishing Labour as the party of economic competence, for reversing a generation of neglect in the public services and for achieving more than any previous Prime Minister in promoting Britain's place in Europe, until the hurricane over his support for the war on Iraq blew him off course."
- "As a man proud to shape his own destiny, he found it shameful when events blew him off course. It didn't take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory."
- "The environment secretary’s campaign was blown off course at the weekend after revelations about cocaine use. But on the day the Tory leadership contest launched in earnest, Gove insisted he was still “in it to win it”."
- "In the background, Brexit uncertainty still looms. An extension to the transition period which ends this year would surely help the pound. For now Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government appears resistant to its core agenda getting blown off course."
Etymology
In the Age of Sail, ships were occasionally diverted by unexpected winds, getting lost possibly to shipwreck or to a new destination. See blown off course on Wikipedia.Wikipedia