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going off on one

going off on one is the present participle and gerund of go off on one.

Meaning of go off on one

Verb

go off on one (third-person singular simple present goes off on one, present participle going off on one, simple past went off on one, past participle gone off on one)

  1. (UK, colloquial) To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of something.
    • I barely mentioned the band's name before he went off on one about how commercial the top forty is these days.

Questions about going off on one

What is going off on one the present participle and gerund of?
Going off on one is the present participle and gerund of go off on one.

Words near going off on one in the dictionary

  1. going off at halfcock
  2. going off at score
  3. going off half-cocked
  4. going off into the weeds
  5. going off on a tangent
  6. going off on one
  7. going off the boil
  8. going off the handle
  9. going off the res
  10. going off the reservation
  11. going off the rez

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