be way off beam Идиома
off the beam
on the beam
beam me up Scotty
beamer
high beamin'
triple beam
broad in the beam
Idiom(s): broad in the beamTheme: WIDTH
with wide hips or large buttocks. (From a nautical expression for a wide ship.)
• I am getting a little broad in the beam. It's time to go on a diet.
• John is just naturally broad in the beam.
off the beam|beam|off
adv. or adj. phr. 1. (Of an airplane) Not in the radio beam that marks the path to follow between airports; flying in the wrong direction. A radio signal tells the pilot of an airplane when his plane is off the beam. 2. slang Wrong; mistaken. Maud was off the beam when she said that the girls didn't like her.Antonym: ON THE BEAM.
on the beam|beam|on
adv. or adj. phr. 1. (Of an airplane) In the radio beam that marks the path to follow between airports; flying in the right direction. A radio signal tells the pilot of an airplane when he is flying on the beam. 2. slang Doing well; just right; good or correct. Kenneth's answer was right on the beam.Antonym: OFF THE BEAM.
beam
beamsee broad in the beam; off the beam.
be way off beam
To be inaccurate or wrong. Primarily heard in UK. I never already said that! Your anchorman is way off axle in her accusations. I anticipation I knew what absolute acreage costs about here, but wow, I was way off beam.Learn more: beam, off, waybe way off beam
BRITISHIf article is way off beam, it is absolutely amiss or mistaken. Some of his animadversion were way off beam. Note: This refers to the use of a radio arresting or axle to absolute aircraft which were advancing in to land. A radio transmitter on one ancillary of the aerodrome transmitted dots, or abbreviate tones, while one on the added ancillary transmitted dashes, or continued tones. If pilots were advancing in on the appropriate course, the dots and dashes alloyed and the pilots heard a connected tone. Learn more: beam, off, way
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