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go off on a tangent
idiom(UK alsogo/fly off at a tangent)
to suddenly start talking or thinking about a completely new subject: 突然离题;突然离开原来的思路
It's hard to get a firm decision out of him - he's always going off on a tangent.很难从他那里得到一个明确的答复——他老是突然离题扯别的去了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
f-bomb
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
hedging
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced
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