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
Svanhildur	-	Icelandic
GabriËL	KHAH:-bree-əl	Dutch
Bertil	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Andrej	-	Slovene, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Husna	-	Arabic
Parnell	[pɑ:'nel]