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go off on one

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something.

British, colloquial

Equivalents

Polskirozkrzyczeć

Examples

“I barely mentioned the band's name⟳ before he went off on one about how commercial the top forty is these days.”
“As far as I was concerned, we had a deal⟳ – she never went off on one about 'that's not a skirt it's a belt,' and I never went out dressed like⟳ a stripper.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

go off the boil go off the handle go off the res go off the reservation go off the rez go on

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