Brewer's: Abroad

You are all abroad.

Wide of the mark; not at home with the subject.

Abroad
, in all directions.

“An elm displays her dusky arms abroad.”

—Dryden.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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