fly off at a tangent

• go off at a tangent (UK)
• go off on a tangent (US)

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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.