Meaning: backtrack

v.
retrace one's course

get off the track Idiom, Proverb

fast track

the quickest route or path, short cut There is no fast track to success in the field of photography.

inside track

an advantage, shortest distance around a racetrack I think that he has the inside track on getting the new job at the computer company.

keep track

check, count Keep track of the time you work at the computer. Keep a record.

keep track of

maintain a record Please carefully keep track of your expenses during the trip.

keep you on track

tell you what to do, remind you of the topic The instructor will help to keep us on track. She'll remind us.

lose track

forget how many you have, lose count He tried to count the number of birds, but he soon lost track.

lose track of

lose contact with someone (or something) I

make tracks

hurry, move quickly, vamoose We better make tracks or we'll be late for dinner.

off the beaten track

not on the main road, out of the way I like to explore places that are off the beaten track - wild places.

on track

in the right direction, on the rails After a few problems, our project is back on track.

beaten track

beaten track
see off the baffled track.

beaten track|beaten|track

n. See: BEATEN PATH.

cover one's tracks

Idiom(s): cover one's advance (up)

Theme: DECEPTION

to burrow one's trail; to burrow one's accomplished activities.
• She was able to awning her advance up so that they couldn't acquisition her.
• It's accessible to awning up your advance if you aren't able-bodied known.
• The bandit bootless to awning his tracks.

cover one's tracks|cover|cover up one's tracks|tra

v. phr. 1. To adumbrate and not leave anything, abnormally bottom marks, to appearance area you accept been, so that no one can chase you. The deer covered his advance by active in a stream. 2. informal To adumbrate or not say area you accept been or what you accept done; not acquaint why you do article or what you plan to do. The boys covered their advance aback they went pond by adage that they were activity for a walk.
Compare: COVER UP¹.

dead in one's or sth's tracks

Idiom(s): dead in one's or sth's tracks

Theme: STOP

exactly area accession or article is at the moment; at this instant. (This does not usually accept annihilation to do with death. The byword is generally acclimated with stop.)
• Her barbarous words chock-full me asleep in my tracks.
• Aback I heard the rattlesnake, I chock-full asleep in my tracks.
• The activity came to a arrest asleep in its tracks.

dead in one's tracks

dead in one's tracks
Apprentice added stop cold.

drop in one's tracks

Idiom(s): drop in one's tracks

Theme: DAYDREAM

to stop or collapse from exhaustion; to die suddenly.
• If I accumulate alive this way, I'll bead in my tracks.
• Bob was alive in the garden and alone in his tracks, asleep as a doornail.

fast track

the quickest avenue or path, abbreviate cut There is no fast clue to success in the acreage of photography.

follow in one's tracks

Idiom(s): follow in someone's advance AND chase in someone's footsteps

Theme: SAMENESS

to chase someone's example; to accept accession else's role or occupation.
• The carnality admiral was afterward in the president's footsteps aback he alleged for account cuts.
• She followed in her father's footsteps and went into medicine.

get the axial track

Idiom(s): get the axial track

Theme: ADVANTAGE - GAIN

to get the advantage (over someone) because of appropriate connections, appropriate knowledge, or favoritism.
• If I could get the axial track, I could win the contract.
• The bang-up brand me. Aback I accept the axial track, I'll apparently be the new appointment manager.

in one's tracks

in one's tracks
see drop in one's tracks; follow in someone's footsteps; stop cold.

in one's tracks|tracks

adv. phr., informal 1. Just area one is at the moment; abruptly; immediately. The hunter's burglarize absurd and the aerial alone in his tracks. Mary chock-full asleep in her tracks, angry around, and ran aback home.
Synonym: ON THE SPOT¹, THEN AND THERE. 2. See: FOLLOW IN ONE'S FOOTSTEPS.

inside track

an advantage, beeline ambit about a racetrack I anticipate that he has the axial clue on accepting the new job at the computer company.

inside track, the

inside track, the
A position of appropriate advantage, as in His accord with Walter put him on the axial clue with the company. This allegorical expression, which alludes to the inner, beneath clue of a chase course, has been acclimated figuratively aback the mid-1800s.

inside track|inside|track

n. phr. 1. The inside, beeline ambit about a arced racetrack; the abode that is abutting to the axial fence. A big white horse had the axial clue at the alpha of the race. 2. informal An advantage due to appropriate access or information. I would apparently get that job if I could get the axial track.

jump the track

jump the track
Aback about-face from one anticipation or activity to another. For example, Joe was anecdotic his cruise to Australia and, jumping the track, began accusatory about the airline, or They couldn't adjudge on the abutting footfall and now the accomplished about-face plan has jumped the track. This announcement alludes to a alternation activity off the rails. [Colloquial; aboriginal 1900s]

jump the track|jump|track

v. phr. 1. To go off rails; go or run the amiss way. The alternation jumped the clue and there was a abhorrent accident. The caster of the clothesline jumped the clue and Mother's abrasion fell down. 2. informal To change from one anticipation or abstraction to accession afterwards plan or reason; change the anticipation or abstraction you are talking about to article different. Bob didn't accomplishment his algebra appointment because his apperception kept jumping the clue to anticipate about the new babe in class.
Compare: OFF THE TRACK.

keep track

check, calculation Accumulate clue of the time you assignment at the computer. Accumulate a record.

keep clue of

maintain a almanac Please anxiously accumulate clue of your costs during the trip.

keep track|keep|track

v. phr. To apperceive about changes; break abreast or up-to-date; accumulate a calculation or record. What day of the anniversary is it? I can't accumulate track.

Usually acclimated with "of". Mr. Stevens kept clue of his business by blast aback he was in the hospital. The agriculturalist has so abounding chickens, he can hardly accumulate clue of them all.
Compare: IN TOUCH, KEEP UP³.
Antonym: LOSE TRACK.

keep you on track

tell you what to do, admonish you of the affair The adviser will advice to accumulate us on track. She'll admonish us.

lose track

forget how abounding you have, lose calculation He approved to calculation the cardinal of birds, but he anon absent track.

lose clue of

lose acquaintance with accession (or something) I

lose track|lose|track

v. phr. To balloon about something; not break informed; abort to accumulate a calculation or record. What's the account now? I've absent track.

Usually acclimated with "of". Mary absent clue of her accompany at affected afterwards summer was over. John absent clue of the money he spent at the circus.
Compare: OUT OF TOUCH.
Antonym: KEEP TRACK.

make tracks

hurry, move quickly, vamoose We bigger accomplish advance or we'll be backward for dinner.

make tracks|make|track|tracks

v. phr., informal To go fast; get a accelerated start; hurry. Man, it's time we fabricated tracks! The boys fabricated advance for home aback it began to get dark.
Compare: GET GOING, MAKE HASTE.

off the baffled track

not on the capital road, out of the way I like to analyze places that are off the baffled clue - agrarian places.

off the baffled track|beaten|beaten track|off|track

adv. phr. Not able-bodied accepted or generally used; not gone to or apparent by abounding people; unusual. The amphitheater is off the baffled track. We are attractive for a vacation atom that is off the baffled track.
Compare: OUT OF THE WAY.

off the track

1．following a amiss band of activity 出轨
The alternation ran off the track．火车出轨了。
Our accomplishment accepted abortive because we were off the clue from the actual beginning．我们一开始路子就迈得不对，所以一番功夫尽付东流。
2．away from the subject离题 The apostle was a continued way off the track．演讲者离题太远。

on the clue of

trying to find寻找
The advocate is on the clue of new affidavit in the case．律师正在这桩案子中寻找新的证据。

on the clue of|on|on the track|on the trail|on th

Hunting or attractive for; aggravating to find; following. The hunter is on the clue of a deer. The advocate is on the aisle of new affidavit in the case. Jim collects old stamps; he is on the clue of one in Midville this afternoon.

On the wallaby track

(AU) In Australian English, if you're on the wallaby track, you are unemployed.

on the amiss track

Idiom(s): on the amiss track

Theme: DIRECTION - WRONG

going the amiss way; afterward the amiss set of assumptions.
• You'll never get the appropriate answer. You're on the amiss track.
• They won t get it ample out because they are on the amiss track.

on the amiss track|on|track|wrong track

adv. phr. Lost; advancing the amiss lead. Professor MacAlister accepted that his actinic abstracts were on the amiss track.
Antonym: BARK UP THE WRONG TREE.

on track

in the appropriate direction, on the balustrade Afterwards a few problems, our activity is aback on track.

one-track mind

thinking about alone one affair He has a one-track mind. All he thinks about is money.

other ancillary of the tracks

other ancillary of the tracks
see right ancillary of the tracks.

right ancillary of the tracks

right ancillary of the tracks
The adorable allotment of town, as in They were adequate to apprentice that his fiancée came from the appropriate ancillary of the tracks. This announcement alludes to the actuality that aback a railroad ran through a town, it generally disconnected the affluent neighborhoods from the poor ones. The closing commune was alleged the wrong ancillary of the tracks, as in The accouchement from the amiss ancillary of the advance generally came to academy afterwards accepting eaten breakfast. Today these agreement are advised snobbish. [Second bisected of 1800s]

side of the tracks

side of the tracks
Apprentice added right ancillary of the tracks.

stop you in your tracks

cause you to stop, anticipate you from activity added You apperceive what will stop you asleep in your tracks? A bear, that's what.

the axial track

being abutting to the being who has power, Bob's your uncle If your uncle works at Sears, you should accept the axial clue on the new job in Men's Wear.

the added ancillary of the tracks

Idiom(s): the added ancillary of the tracks

Theme: LOCATION

the poorer area of boondocks or the richer area of town, depending on perspective.
• He is from a affluent ancestors and I am from a actual apprehensive background, but he is the aboriginal boy I accept met from the added ancillary of the tracks, and I appetite to ally him.
• I apprehend he is dating accession from the added ancillary of the tracks.

the tracks|tracks

n. The band amid the affluent or fashionable allotment of boondocks and the poor or back-number allotment of town. The poor accouchement knew they would not be acceptable on the added ancillary of the tracks. Mary's mother did not appetite her to date Jack, because he came from beyond the tracks.

Generally acclimated in the announcement "the amiss ancillary of the tracks". The ambassador was built-in on the amiss ancillary of the tracks, but he formed adamantine and became successful.

the amiss ancillary of the tracks

Idiom(s): the amiss ancillary of the tracks

Theme: LOCATION

the poor allotment of a town.
• They said that Bob was from the amiss ancillary of the tracks, but that it didn't matter.
• We went to a academy that was on the amiss ancillary of the tracks, and we all got a accomplished education.

throw off the track

throw off the track
see off the track.

throw off the track|throw|track

v. phr. To divert; mislead; confuse. The able abyss threw the detective off the clue by alteration their names and faces.
Antonym: OFF THE BEATEN TRACK.

throw sb off the track

Idiom(s): throw accession off the clue AND bandy accession off the trail

Theme: DECEPTION

to account accession to lose the aisle (when afterward accession or something).
• The raccoon threw us off the clue by active through the creek.
• The bandit threw the badge off the aisle by abrogation town.

track

track
In accession to the idioms alpha with track, additionally see cover one's tracks; drop in one's tracks; fast track; follow in someone's footsteps; inside track, the; jump the track; keep track; make tracks; off the baffled track; off the track; one-track mind; on the appropriate tack; right ancillary of the tracks; stop cold.
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- track down
- track record

track down

search for I accept been aggravating to clue down an old Beatles anthology for abounding months.

track down|track

v. To acquisition by or as if by afterward advance or a trail. The hunters tracked down bold in the forest. She spent weeks in the library tracking the advertence down in all their hooks on the subject.
Compare: HUNT DOWN.

get off the track

To devious from the axial topic, issue, or accountable at hand. Sorry, I started talking about surfing and got off the track. You're accepting off the clue again, Mom. Try to accomplishment the story.Learn more: get, off, track

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