left field

noun
1.
Baseball.
a.
the area of the outfield to the left of center field, as viewed from home plate.
b.
the position of the player covering this area.
2.
Slang. a position or circumstance that is remote from an ordinary or general trend.
3.
out in left field, Slang. completely mistaken; wrong.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism

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left field

see out in left field.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Left field is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
Example sentences
If the mouse is clicked on the left field of a row in a table, the options are
  applied to the entire row.
If their left field of vision was frosted, they went the same way.
And as for the naturalistic origin of natural law itself, your still far out to
  left field.
The ninth inning was about to start and left field was empty.
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