off the subject

not concerned with the subject being discussed. I got off the subject and forgot what I was supposed to be talking about. The speaker was off the subject, telling about his vacation in Hawaii.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Giampaolo	jahm-POW-lo	Italian
Cloelia	-	Ancient Roman
Veronika	vye-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), vee-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), ve-RO-nee-kah (German, Croatian)	Russian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norweg
Danijela	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian
Newt	NOOT	English
Najib	-	Arabic