• EmpricornEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    …and we don’t have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.

    • numberfour002English
      30·
      6 months ago

      Technically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.

      • morrowind
        10·
        6 months ago

        “Off the rails” is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the “rails” are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.