far afield

Idioms  

1. Wide-ranging, at a distance, as in I started out identifying wild mushrooms, but since then I've gone far afield in other branches of botany. [c. 1400]

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Example Sentences

Reiner told the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast: "This one meant the most to me because it was the first time I ever did anything that was so far afield from anything my father would have done."

From BBC

Then, in the span of 24 hours this weekend, three separate tragedies across three continents showed how horrific events can unfold anywhere, anytime, often far afield of Washington’s focus.

From The Wall Street Journal

What’s unfolded at Michigan is far afield from that.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is, in some ways, the most pernicious because it strays far afield from direct claims of military and political heroism to celebrate a scientist, a profession built around facts.

From Los Angeles Times

From the Greek colony in present-day Marseille, France, down to the Great Cataract in what is now Sudan, and as far afield as Co Loa in present-day Vietnam, Mr. Rees explores more than a dozen places where the great civilizations of the past butted up against a variety of lesser-known cultures.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• abroad
• absent
• aside
• distant
• elsewhere
• off
• over