go off on a tangent
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Пример использования идиомы go off on a tangent:
While delivering a lecture on art, Professor Dillidon suddenly went off on a tangent and began to speak about the weather.
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Другие идиомы:
- get (someone's) goat
- get off one's high horse
- get on one's high horse
- go ape (over someone or something)
- go hog-wild
- go to the dogs
- go whole hog
- get one's ducks in a row
- go to bed with the chickens
- gone goose
- goose bumps
- go/be belly up
- get/have a frog in one's throat
- get/have a lump in one's throat
- get off (someone's) back