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go off on a tangent
verb as in digress
verb as in stray
verb as in wander
Example Sentences
His campaign is likely terrified he'll get angry and defensive and like his Fox News buddy Brian Kilmeade, go off on a tangent arguing that wanting to be more like Hitler isn't such a bad thing.
He deftly maneuvers the conversation when necessary but also knows when to let one of his co-hosts or a guest go off on a tangent, which often leads to the most interesting material.
But before I go off on a tangent, let’s discuss how much a general contractor can make when remodeling a home.
I don’t mean to go off on a tangent, but I noticed that “functions modeling” was also included in the offending textbooks in Florida.
I do have some images… I start to tell stories around the picture and then you just go off on a tangent about how I learned to sing and how I didn’t become a drummer and the weirdness of being in an English boarding school where you might have met Boris Johnson in another life and how I ended up wearing the world’s most ridiculous trousers on stage with Iron Maiden.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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