Meaning of blow off course | Babel Free

Definitions

To affect negatively, often in an unexpected manner; to derail.

figuratively, transitive

Examples

“He deserves every credit for establishing Labour as the party of economic competence, for reversing a generation of neglect⟳ in the public services and for achieving more than any previous Prime Minister in promoting Britain's place⟳ in Europe, until the hurricane over his support⟳ for the war on Iraq blew him off course.”

“As a man proud to shape⟳ his own⟳ destiny, he found it shameful when events blew him off course. It didn't take⟳ tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”

“The environment secretary’s campaign was blown off course at the weekend after revelations about cocaine use⟳. But on the day the Tory leadership contest launched in earnest, Gove insisted he was still “in it to win⟳ it”.”

“In the background, Brexit uncertainty still looms. An extension to the transition period which ends this year would surely help⟳ the pound. For now Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government appears resistant to its core agenda getting blown off course.”

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