go off on a tangent
English
Alternative forms
- go off at a tangent (British)
Verb
go off on a tangent (third-person singular simple present goes off on a tangent, present participle going off on a tangent, simple past went off on a tangent, past participle gone off on a tangent)
- (US) Synonym of fly off at a tangent
Related terms
- go off on one
Further reading
- “go off on a tangent”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “go off on a tangent” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “go off on a tangent” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “go off at on a tangent” (US) / “go off at on a tangent” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.