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went off on one

went off on one is the simple past 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 went off on one

What is went off on one the simple past of?
Went off on one is the simple past of go off on one.

Words near went off on one in the dictionary

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

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