beaten track
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It will also let them take the "risk" of playing venues "off the beaten track", Mandolin player Alasdair Taylor says.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
It is also a lever for encouraging tourism into an area far off the beaten track.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
The moral: Whenever possible, get off the beaten track.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024
It is off the beaten track for most Palestinians, and far from Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, the body created in the 1990s that exercises limited self-rule over parts of the West Bank.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2023
Hundreds of wagons had ground their way over the long road before them, and beside this road stretched the narrower beaten track of the ox-drivers.
From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez
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