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gone off on one

gone off on one is the past participle 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 gone off on one

What is gone off on one the past participle of?
Gone off on one is the past participle of go off on one.

Words near gone off on one in the dictionary

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

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