wide of the mark
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McIlroy's pre-tournament prediction of being able to take the sting out of Pennsylvania course by smashing his driver as far as he could proved wide of the mark in a disappointing opening round.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
His dire forecasts about global cooling and warming were wide of the mark, a twofer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Sir Keir said "the figures being bandied around are absolutely wide of the mark".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer said such speculation was "wide of the mark", although he did not elaborate further.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024
And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
