uscire dai binari

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Italian

Etymology

Literally, to leave from the railroad tracks.

Verb

uscìre dai binari (first-person singular present èsco dai binari, first-person singular past historic uscìi dai binari, past participle uscìto dai binari, auxiliary èssere)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to deviate from an orthodoxy, course of action, etc.; to fall out of line; to go off the rails
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Non mi vorranno mica sparare per essere uscito dai binari una volta?
      They wouldn’t shoot me for going off the rails just once?
      (literally, “They would not want to, say, shoot me for going off the rails once?”)