I'm not sure if I heard this somewhere, but does it make any sense to say:
To be off base by a good measure.
"By a good measure" is the part that interests me. Is it idiomatic?
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Yes, though I would not say it is tremendously common. )
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Yes, though I would not say it is tremendously common. (It means "by a fair/considerable amount", as you probably realise.)