be out in left field
US informalDefinition
› to be completely wrongWrong › to be very unusual or very different from other people or things: She's kind of out in left field but she's fun.Unique and unusualGood, better and best in terms of quality
(Definition of be out in left field from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- aberrant adjective
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