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be off base
verb
To kill.
Exact(16)
Those asking such questions may well be off base.
"If I do that I won't be off base".
But a growing body of research indicates that this reasoning may be off base.
If your comparison turns out to be off base, laugh it off and keep talking.
I've had some opportunities to do it and I figured it would be off base".
But when the polls turn out to be off base as they were here in 2000, it is embarrassing to the pollsters, Mr. Smith said.
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Both views are off base.
Both characterizations are off base.
"They see their assumptions were off base," Dr. Stum said.
But your gloomy assessment of charter performance is off base.
I said The Times had been off base.
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