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off the tourist trail
away from usual tourist places
A place off the tourist trail is away from the destinations that most tourists visit.
Hear it in real life
Was the island very busy?
Not where we went; we found a beach off the tourist trail.
We stayed off the tourist trail and ate in small family-run restaurants.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We found a village out of the tourist trail.
Say: We found a village off the tourist trail.
The fixed preposition in this expression is "off," not "out of."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be off the tourist trail; go off the tourist trail; stay off the tourist trail
Your turn: say it out loud
We stayed off the tourist trail and ate in small family-run restaurants.
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off the tourist trail
away from usual tourist places
“We stayed off the tourist trail and ate in small family-run restaurants.”
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