"beaten track" meaning in English

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          "text": "The isolated cottage was well off the beaten track.",
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          "text": "on the beaten track",
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          "text": "It is a more beaten track.",
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        "A well-populated area or well-trodden path; any busy area."
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        "(figuratively, singular only) A well-populated area or well-trodden path; any busy area."
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          "sense": "well-trodden path",
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          "word": "ausgetretener Pfad"
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  "pos": "noun",
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