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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:42:48 -0600, John61 wrote:
> "wandering off the beaten path" --- What does this mean?
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> Thanks!
to do something in a manner that's not the standard/usual/wornout one
if you ever had to rehab pathways in forests or fields
after a year or more of abandon you'd clearly see the idea
of the metaphor ;-)
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