go off sb/sth
— phrasal verb with go uk/ɡəʊ/us/ɡoʊ/verb present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone
B2 UK to stop liking or being interested in someone or something:
I went off beefburgers after I got food poisoning from a takeaway.
I went off Peter when he said those dreadful things about Clare.
More examples
- They began to go off each other after two months together.
- I used to love chocolate, but I went off it as I got older.
- She couldn't imagine how someone could go off chocolate.
- It used to be our favourite restaurant, but we went off it when they changed the chef.
- He's very fickle and goes off things very quickly.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not liking
- abhor
- abide
- abominate
- antipathy
- averse
- hate
- hate sb's guts idiom
- have a problem with sth/sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- have it in for sb idiom
- leave
- not take kindly to sth idiom
- phobic
- problem
- put
- put sb off (sth/sb)
- see sth in sb/sth
- take against sb
- thing
- turn
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