GO ASTRAY Definition & Meaning

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Idioms and Phrases

Wander off the right path or subject; also, wander into evil or error. For example, It was hard to follow the lecturer's gist, since he kept going astray , or The gang members led him astray, and he ended up in court . This expression alludes to sheep or other animals that stray from the rest of the flock. Indeed, Handel's oratorio Messiah (1741) has this chorus: 鈥淎ll we like sheep have gone astray, Every one to his own way.鈥� [c. 1300]

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There鈥檚 no space to go astray; their energy is concentrated.

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Some good news about China's relations with the other world superpower would not go astray.

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It鈥檚 just that I go astray here and there.鈥�

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However, it鈥檚 only too soon that things go astray from the kind of filmmaking that made 鈥淏lack Dynamite鈥� such a contemporary cult classic.

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鈥淚 didn鈥檛 want my family to go astray and be no good to the world.鈥�

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