fly off at a tangent (English, verb)
expansion: fly off at a tangent (third-person singular simple present flies off at a tangent, present participle flying off at a tangent, simple past flew off at a tangent, past participle flown off at a tangent)
Senses:
glosses: To digress from a topic.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: flies off at a tangent
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flying off at a tangent
tags: participle
present
form: flew off at a tangent
tags: past
form: flown off at a tangent
tags: participle
past
form: go off at a tangent
tags: alternative
UK
form: go off on a tangent
tags: alternative
US