off the mark

[Жанатик]

Всех приветствую, помогите перевезти плиз: Human rights watch was uncharacteristically slow off the mark in Darfur, but its report, when it came, was thorough and unambiguous.

[upahill]

11 off the mark/wide of the mark not correct [= inaccurate]:
Our cost estimate was way off the mark.

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[tats]

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+slow+off+the+mark

be slow off the mark
to be slow to act or to react to an event or situation The federal government was criticized for being slow off the mark in helping towns hit by the recent hurricane.