Usually means: Deviating from main topic suddenly.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. go off on a tangent: Merriam-Webster
  2. go off on a tangent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. go off on a tangent: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go off on a tangent: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go off on a tangent: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (go off on a tangent)

verb:  (US) Synonym of fly off at a tangent

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