off base

A Virginia lawmaker wants to improve off-base living conditions for enlisted troops with families.

The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river.

But he's off-base in describing the city as having "record crime" until he took office.

Verne had been dead for 64 years by the time of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and was thus spared the embarrassment of knowing . . . that part of the rocket would be named “Columbia,” not his own ludicrously off-base suggestion, “Columbiad.”