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fly off at a tangent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables
fly- of-f at a -tan-gent
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To digress from a topic.

Inflected Forms

flies off at a tangent (present, singular) flying off at a tangent (participle, present) flew off at a tangent (past) flown off at a tangent (participle, past) go off at a tangent (alternative, UK) go off on a tangent (alternative, US)

Questions

What does fly off at a tangent mean?
To digress from a topic.

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