"off the mark" meaning in English

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      "word": "near the mark"
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        {
          "text": "His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: \"I told you so\", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate."
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          "inaccurate"
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          "correct",
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          "appropriate",
          "appropriate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate."
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        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "inaccurate",
          "word": "asian vierestä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "inaccurate",
          "word": "à côté de la plaque"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "inaccurate",
          "word": "inappropriato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "matohazure",
          "sense": "inaccurate",
          "word": "的外れ"
        }
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          "ref": "2017, E. R. Hooton, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, page iv:",
          "text": "Sarafov was the first off the mark, but the other divisions did not jump off until an hour later and achieved nothing.",
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        "Making a start (generally in comparison to others)."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "wide of the mark"
    }
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  "word": "off the mark"
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    {
      "word": "near the mark"
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    {
      "word": "on the mark"
    }
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      "word": "get off the mark"
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          "text": "His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.",
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          "ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:",
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        "(figuratively) Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate."
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          "ref": "2017, E. R. Hooton, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, page iv:",
          "text": "Sarafov was the first off the mark, but the other divisions did not jump off until an hour later and achieved nothing.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Making a start (generally in comparison to others)."
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "wide of the mark"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "inaccurate",
      "word": "asian vierestä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "inaccurate",
      "word": "à côté de la plaque"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "inaccurate",
      "word": "inappropriato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "matohazure",
      "sense": "inaccurate",
      "word": "的外れ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "off the mark"
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