in left field Idiome
out in left field
not logical or sensible, all wet Don't listen to his advice. He's out in left field.
Be out in left field
(USA) To be out in left field is not to know what's going on. Taken from baseball, when youngsters assign less capable players to the outfield where the ball is less likely to be hit by a young player. In business, one might say, 'Don't ask the new manager; he's out in left field and doesn't know any answers yet.'
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adj. phr.,
informal Far from the right answer; wrong; astray.
Johnny tried to answer the teacher's question but he was way out in left field. Susan tried to guess what the surprise was but she was way out in left field. 2. Speaking or acting very queerly; crazy.
The girl next door was always queer, but after her father died, she was really out in left field and had to go to a hospital. Compare: OUT OF ONE'S HEAD.
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out in larboard field
Uncommon, unpopular, or contrarily strange. Well, that advancement is absolutely out in larboard field! How did you appear up with that one? Sure, my aunt is absolutely absurd and generally out in larboard field, but I love her to pieces!Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
Fig. offbeat; abnormal and eccentric. (Learn added out of larboard field.) Sally is a lot of fun, but she's array of out in larboard field. What a aberrant idea. It's absolutely out in larboard field.Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
Also, out of larboard field. Eccentric, odd; also, mistaken. For example, The composer's use of antagonism in this symphony is way out in larboard field, or His acknowledgment was out of larboard field; he was absolutely wrong. This argot refers to baseball's larboard acreage but the absolute allusion is disputed. Amid the theories proposed is that in some ballparks the larboard acreage bank is further from the concoction than the bank in appropriate field. Another is that in aboriginal ballparks, larboard acreage was generally beyond than appropriate acreage and accordingly was home to added absent assurance and accepted confusion. [Mid-1900s] Additionally see far out. Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
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1. If addition or article is out in larboard field, they are abnormal and unconventional. Their business action is way out in larboard field. Note: You can additionally say that addition or article is out of larboard field. I wasn't the alone one who anticipation the abstraction a little bit out of larboard field.
2. If a being or alignment is out in larboard field, they are acting abnormally from best bodies or accept a altered assessment from best people. The action is appropriate on that and the government, boy, they're absolutely out in larboard acreage on this one. Note: This announcement is usually acclimated to appearance disapproval of someone's behaviour or opinions. Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
or out of larboard field
AMERICANSomeone or article that is out in larboard field or out of larboard field is aberrant or unusual, or accomplishing things abnormally from best added people. He is, like best theorists, out in larboard field, blank the beginning evidence. Note: Left-field is acclimated as an adjective to beggarly hardly odd or unusual. She performs a left-field cabaret act. Her parents were artistic and left-field and capital Polly to become a accompanist or a barter driver.Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
mod. wrong; off base; loony. Don’t pay any absorption to her. She’s out in larboard acreage as usual. Learn more: field, left, outout in larboard field
Out of acquaintance with reality; also, absolutely mistaken. The appellation refers to the larboard acreage of baseball, but there is some abstruseness as to how it acquired its accepted meaning. William Safire lists a cardinal of theories, amid them that in older, asymmetric ballparks, larboard acreage was added (and accordingly further from the batter) than appropriate field; that the larboard fielder charge comedy further aback back the concoction is right-handed; and that at the Chicago Cubs’s old ballpark, the Neuropsychiatric Institute (a brainy hospital) was amid aloof abaft the larboard acreage stands (leading to the association that anyone out in larboard acreage was crazy). None of these theories has been verified, but best acceptable those apropos ambit are abutting to the mark, back it is generally put as way out in larboard field. Used from about 1950 on, the appellation appeared in Publishers Weekly (1974): “Novak’s use of religious allegory may put him in larboard field.”Learn more: field, left, out
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