what's the "not so far off the mark" mean? a sentence as bellew: "To be sure, experts' evaluation of the technical flaws in sound experiments was not so far off the mark" how to understand about "no

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what's the "not so far off the mark" mean? a sentence as bellew: "To be sure, experts' evaluation of the technical flaws in sound experiments was not so far off the mark" how to understand about "not so far off the mark"? thank you

15 июля 2011 г., 7:53

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on the mark = to be 100% correct off the mark = not to be 100% correct Variations of this are: off the mark far off the mark very far off the mark not so far off the mark (=quite close) not too far off the mark etc

15 июля 2011 г.

"not so far off the mark" Not far = close to so "not so far off the mark" means the experiment results were close to the mark. in another way : Technical flows were very close to the agreed value. hope it helps :)

15 июля 2011 г.

This is a term which probably comes from target practice or hunting. Mark - Target to shoot at Not so far off of - close to It is close to the target...

15 июля 2011 г.