(figuratively) Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate.
His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.
Making a start (generally in comparison to others).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again. Robbie Fowler
The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference. Judith McNaught
To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes. Roseanne Barr
I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. Noah Baumbach
Begin with an error of an inch and end by being a thousand miles off the mark. Chinese Proverb