left field

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noun

Baseball.
  1. the area of the outfield to the left of center field, as viewed from home plate.
  2. the position of the player covering this area.
Slang. a position or circumstance that is remote from an ordinary or general trend.

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Idioms for left field

    out in left field, Slang. completely mistaken; wrong.

Origin of left field

An Americanism dating back to 1855–60

Words nearby left field

left bank, left brachiocephalic vein, left colic flexure, left colic vein, left face, left field, left fielder, left gastric vein, left gastro-omental vein, left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, the, left heart
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Words related to left field

incorrect, tasteless, unsuitable, unseemly, improper, wrong, irrelevant, disproportionate, oblivion, nothingness, nowhere, Siberia, garbage, ill-suited, ill-timed, inapplicable, incongruous, indecorous, inept, malapropos

Idioms and Phrases with left field

left field

see out in left field.

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