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off-base
[ awf-beys, of- ]
adjective
- located outside the perimeters of a military base:
off-base housing for officers.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of off-base1
Idioms and Phrases
Wrong, relying on a mistaken premise, as in His description of the accounting system was totally off base . This metaphoric term originated in baseball, where a runner who steps off a base can be put out. [c. 1940]Example Sentences
Some were wildly off-base; others lined up perfectly with what I’d seen and heard.
Live Nation says the arguments are off-base and will probably fail in court.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.
In a paper published Monday in “The Anatomical Record,†an international team of paleontologists, neuroscientists and behavioral scientists argue that Herculano-Houzel’s assumptions about brain cavity size and corresponding neuron counts were off-base.
Voting rights advocates have argued the elections office’s legal interpretations have been way off-base.
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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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