go off into the weeds
To go hopelessly astray.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“We often go off into the weeds during our meetings.”
“The project plan was clear until the team started to go off into the weeds with minor technical details.”
“The professor warned the students not to go off into the weeds, urging them to keep their arguments focused on the primary thesis.”
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all dressed up and nowhere to go
Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.
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all systems go
Everything is ready.
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as you go
While one is doing (something); as one progresses.
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boldly go where no man has gone before
To break new ground.
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come and go
To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
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don't go there
Do not broach that topic.
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easy come, easy go
Easily won and easily lost (usually said when resigned to a loss; something that comes in the same way, goes in the same way)
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enough to go around
There is an adequate amount or supply of something for all of the people present or involved.
Last updated August 10, 2026