The Master replied, " What is necessary is to rectify names." " So! indeed! " said Tsze-lu. " You are wide of the mark! Why must there be such rectification? "
While there are conflicting accounts on who fired first, Hamilton's shot flew wide of the mark while Burr dealt Hamilton a mortal blow above the right hip.
And also because the vague suspicions expectations, really that I'd been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark.
But nearly 20 years later, it's fair to say those prophecies were just a bit wide of the mark, and you'd be forgiven for thinking that graphene was nothing more than a load of hype.