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the branch that got bored of the trunk's life plan.
means something that develops or splits off from a main stem, idea, group, or lineage while still owing it everything.
from literal botany first, from a plant sending out a side shoot around the 1600s, then borrowed by the 1700s for anything that branches off a main thing, from companies to religions to rivers.
first usedescribed literal plant branches, not metaphors
corporate versionspinoffs are basically business offshoots
linguisticswhole languages are offshoots of dead ones
botany ironythe offshoot can outgrow the parent plant