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"goes off topic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when someone moves away from the main subject of a conversation or discussion. For example: "We were discussing the upcoming election, but then the conversation went off topic when someone started talking about their vacation plans."
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The discussion inevitably goes off topic, and you start to feel trapped.
Whenever a conversation goes off topic, the raccoon means that it's time to take that conversation into a different channel (or maybe offline).
Okay, maybe your teacher isn't very good and he/she goes off topic a lot.
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She's gone off topic, she says.
_ Forgive me for going off topic.
"It really helped me not to go off topic or have deathly silences," Wearing says.
There can be no eating or bathroom breaks, and speakers are not allowed to go "off topic".
Try to keep the questions relevant to the role you are applying for to avoid going off topic.
George Galloway went on TV to talk about his new venture to open a vintage clothes shop but as ever, the outspoken politician went off topic and surprised viewers by talking about what type of underwear he was wearing.
The crowd was reasonably quiet until Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst ruled that Davis had to sit down because she had gone off topic by referencing a state law requiring that women who want abortions must show up a day earlier for an ultrasound.
As it became clear that Davis might talk long enough to end the session, Republicans in the chamber began raising objections, contending that she had forfeited the right to continue speaking by going off topic when she mentioned a Planned Parenthood budget and a Texas sonogram law; they even protested that a colleague had helped her into a back brace.
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