"go off the rails" in German to go off the rails auf die schiefe Bahn geraten aus den Fugen geraten entgleisen aus den Schienen springen Detailed translations for "go off the rails" to go off the rails 1. figurative to go off the rails(also: to veer off the straight-and-narrow) auf die schiefe Bahn geraten She's going to go off the rails eventually anyway, Stefan. Source: opensubtitles.org Corpus by OPUS Request review Dass sie letztendlich sowieso auf die schiefe Bahn geraten wird, Stefan. 2. other to go off the rails(also: to get off track, to go awry, to unravel, unraveled) aus den Fugen geraten 3. railway to go off the rails(also: to be derailed, to jump the rails) entgleisen to go off the rails(also: to be derailed, to jump the rails) aus den Schienen springen{intransitive verb}