To be hackt off when people say

[grovel]

"on the wrong tact"? It's tack ffs.

I would be hacked off

wrong track surely?

It's hacked off and on the wrong track

Hackt, tickt and pisst

Fluffy said it all.

I thought it was tack - as in a direction (nautical).

Presume hackt was a joke - non?

No it is tack I reckon - as in "try a different tack".

Still liking your hackt off humour grovel :)

My DS used to say sorry to "disturve you" when he was little, I never corrected him coz I found it rather sweet and funny

Change tack... yes, nautical. Wrong tack... ditto. Unless it's a reference to horse bridles Do know it's annoying when DM tells me things were stretched so they were nice and 'taunt'...

I would say 'try a different tack' but 'on the wrong track' surely not a mixture of the two... Im not Stephen Fry though :o

It's change tack, but on the wrong (or right) track. As in path.

It's on the wrong track as in on the wrong path. I looked it up (geek)

Trying a different tack is a nautical reference to turning round - ie tacking which is moving the sail from one side to the other so that the wind hits the boat from the other direction and the boat can turn around (IIRC from a million years ago and sailing mirror dinghies)

on the wrong track or change tack

I don't get it

What about people who "flaunt the rules"?

I always thought it was to "flout" the rules - as in flout meaning to treat with contempt as opposed to flaunt meaning to show off?

From the dictionary:

Idiom
19.
on the wrong tack, under a misapprehension; in error; astray: His line of questioning began on the wrong tack.

It is changing tack

And on the right track

My favourite is funeral corsage

Aha. Thanks.

So then what's the difference between "on the wrong tack" and "on the wrong track"?

I have never heard "on the wrong tack", the dictionary must be on the wrong track.

I often hear prostate and prostrate mixed up.

If a man tells me he's come for his prostrate injection I'm really tempted to ask him to lie on the floor

LOL, Jamie

Gah! Of course it is fluffy! But people do say the other y'know!

It is tack.

idioms.yourdictionary.com/on-the-right-tack