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Tag: go off on a tangent

  • Digress

    Digress

    Word of the Day: Digress Digress is a lovely, formal word for suddenly starting to discuss another topic in a conversation. For instance, you may be talking with your friend about buying groceries and how the price of vegetables will increase because of all the damage Typhoon Lionrock caused in Hokkaido. Yes, although Japan uses a…

  • At hand

    At hand

    English Idiom: At hand The last two days, I have introduced go off on a tangent and back on track. I have also used the idiom at hand in both of those posts. At hand can have two meanings. One meaning is to be physically close.  For example, I live in the countryside, and there…

  • Back on track

    Back on track

    Idiom: (Get) back on track Let me pick up where I left off yesterday. Of course, after someone taking part in a conversation goes off on a tangent, they have to get back to the subject at hand or get back on track again. To get back on track means to begin talking about the…

  • Go off on a Tangent

    Go off on a Tangent

    Idiom: Go off on a tangent Frequently, at ArtisanEnglish.jp, students and I go off on a tangent. This does not mean that we take a trip together; it means that we talk about something unrelated to the matter at hand. Go off on a tangent means to begin talking about something unrelated to the original…