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off the beam
Idioms and Phrases
Off course, on the wrong track, as in He's way off the beam with that argument . This colloquial term and its antonym, on the beam , meaning “on the right track,” allude to directing aircraft by means of radio beams. [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]Example Sentences
And yet Campbell still kicked off the beam run with a 9.850.
But China’s Zhou Yaqin was the top qualifier for the balance beam final and Biles fell off the beam to miss out on a medal for the first time in Paris.
After falling off the beam during the event final Monday at Bercy Arena, Biles settled for fifth place on balance beam, ending her streak of consecutive Olympic medals in the event.
Bad luck struck again for Lee as one of her feet slipped off the beam on the last skill of a triple acrobatic series and she crashed hard onto the mat.
Simone Biles fell off the beam to miss out on a medal for the first time at the Paris Olympics as Alice d'Amato took gold.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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