What is "goes off"

Usage examples of "goes off".

Attorney Alejandro now goes off on a fairly lengthy riff, but Randy finds it hard to concentrate until something in Attorney Alejandro’.

The family party of the defunct Pyncheons, we presume, goes off in this wise.

When the beam goes off, the hydrogen nuclei will relax again, each nucleus emitting a tiny burst of radio energy as it returns to its original state.

If you get up before the dew is off the plants,- -it goes off very early,--you can sprinkle soot on the plant (soot is my panacea: if I can get the disease of a plant reduced to the necessity of soot, I am all right)and soot is unpleasant to the bug.

It's booby trapped in case the Posleen try to open it, but it won't injure anything outside the box if it goes off.

If he releases the magnetic container by an alarm-clock timer or nine other simple make-it-in-your-own-kitchen devices, he can be in Singapore when it goes off.

Yet he goes off for a fortnight's leave, and puts my boy in full charge, with all that immense business in his hands, and a freehand to do what he likes with it.

I come on duty, sir, when the man on the gate goes off at half-past seven.

It goes off in a night like it was pretendin' it had never been here an' never meant to come again.

Everything goes off smoothly, except there is a momentary panic over a fractious bull, who plunges into the crowd.