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take this offline

phrase/teɪk ðɪs ˈɒflaɪn/

B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To move a detailed or tangential discussion out of the current meeting into a separate conversation.

This is quite in the weeds, so why don't the two of us take it offline after the call?

Similar: discuss separately, follow up one-to-one

Topic: Business email & meetings in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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