go off on one
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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)
- (British, 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.
- 2021, Andreina Cordani, The Girl Who...:
- 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.