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'step off the path' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb phrase that can be used when describing a literal or figurative shift away from a predetermined course. For example, "I decided to step off the path and follow my own vision."
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We need brave people willing to step off the path and be bad citizens, we need people storming our 21st-century barricades and willing to be used as sandbags.
In a republic, the one my great-grandfather charged at the barricade for, all citizens have a duty, and responsibility, to be bad citizens when power doesn't listen, and step off the path and add nothing but themselves and their idealism to the movement for change.
But if I can say one thing that may be of interest to your readers, it is that they shouldn't feel bad about themselves if they make the decision to step off the path, because it might be the right decision, although it might not feel right at the time.
Not only don't we ever get "there," but folks step off the path when they sense they are underled.
Be sure to be aware of other riders around you and step off the path when they approach you from behind.
Peter Hunt's A Step off the Path (1985) is also influenced by the Famous Five, and the St . Clares and Malory Towers series provided the inspiration for Jacqueline Wilson's Double and (1996) and Adèle Geras's Egerton Hall trilogy (1990–92) respectively.
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Alternative Publishing Paths The point at which aspiring authors step off the shopping path and embrace alternative publishing (hybrid publishing, partnership publishing, self-publishing) depends on their tolerance for rejection, their patience with the process, and their personal publishing ambitions.
"Sometimes you have to step off the beaten path," running back Tiki Barber said.
They need to step off the beaten path of autocratic kneejerk reactions and accept the verdict of the ballot box.
He had to step off the wooden path and stand on the grass so as not to tower over Ulitskaya, who is barely five feet tall.
When you step off the beaten path to "follow your bliss", as mythologist Joseph Campbell said, you are on a completely unique journey.
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