be blown off course
be blown off course
1. Literally, to be pushed off the route that one is trying to follow, as of a ship in the wind. Captain, do you know where we are? I think we've been blown off course!
2. By extension, to have one's plans interrupted or interfered with. I just don't want your goal of becoming valedictorian to be blown off course by anything—including this new girlfriend of yours.
See also: blown, course, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be blown off course
have your plans disrupted by some circumstance.This phrase is a nautical metaphor: contrary winds turn a sailing ship away from its intended course.
See also: blown, course, off
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- flow with the breeze
- literally
- be blown away
- be blown away by something
- blown away
- blow off the map
- snug down
- course
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