means literally out of the rut (Latin, ex orʹbita, out of the wheel-rut); out of the track; extravagant (extra-vagant).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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