gone astray
Off the path
Gone astray means having wandered off course or strayed from the correct path.
Literally, something gone astray has become lost: The package must have gone astray in the mail.
Figuratively, it describes moral deviation or error: a youth gone astray, good intentions gone astray.
The phrase often implies corruption of something once innocent or properly directed.
- derailedThrown off course
- errantDeviating from proper course
- misplacedPut in wrong location
- lostUnable to navigate
- waywardStubbornly self-willed
fallen · fallen from grace · wandering · adrift · deviated · MIA · diverged · misguided · off-track · misdirected · wide of the mark · corrupted · mislaid · missing · sidetracked · out of bounds · sinful · detoured