to go off on a tangent
01
to begin talking about a subject that is not in any way related to the original topic that is being discussed
Dialect
American
American
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Idiom
Informal
Exempel
The speaker was supposed to discuss the company's growth strategy, but he went off on a tangent about his personal experiences, leaving the audience perplexed.
