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[โ€“] numberfour002@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.