go off on one

verb

Definitions

  1. To launch into an animated diatribe, or passionate description or explanation of…

    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.
    • As far as I was concerned, we had a deal – she never went off on one about 'that's not a skirt it's a belt,' and I never went out dressed like a stripper.

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