off target

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Bir atışın, atılan cismin veya hareketin ulaşması amaçlanan yerin dışına doğru.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Away from the place that a shot, throw, or other action was meant to reach.

• The ball went off target.
• Both arrows landed off target.
• He fired again, but the shot flew off target.

Eş anlamlılar: wide, wide of the mark

Zıt anlamlılar: on target

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: shoot off target, land off target, go off target

hatalı, hedeften uzak

Yanlış veya beklenenden, planlanandan ya da amaçlanandan farklı.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: Wrong or different from what was expected, planned, or intended.

• Your estimate is off target.
• The sales forecast was off target by ten percent.
• Their assessment of the problem proved badly off target.

Nasıl kullanılır: off target by + amount (Our estimate was off target by twenty percent.)

Eş anlamlılar: inaccurate, wrong

Zıt anlamlılar: accurate

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: estimates off target, figures off target, way off target