"fly off at a tangent" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fly off at a tangent.ogg Forms: flies off at a tangent [present, singular, third-person], flying off at a tangent [participle, present], flew off at a tangent [past], flown off at a tangent [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fly<,,flew,flown> off at a tangent}} 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)
  1. (idiomatic) To digress from a topic. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: go off at a tangent [UK], go off on a tangent [US] Translations (Translations): eksyä aiheesta (Finnish), digresser (French), irse por los cerros de Úbeda (Spanish)
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