VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / go off the reservation

Thesaurus: go off the reservation

go off the reservation (third-person singular simple present goes off the reservation, present participle going off the reservation, simple past went off the reservation, past participle gone off the reservation) (litera…

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. go off the reservation (third-person singular simple present goes off the reservation, present participle going off the reservation, simple past went off the reservation, past participle gone off the reservation) (literally) To leave a reservation to which one was restricted. (US, politics) To break with one's party or group, usually temporarily. (by extension) To engage in disruptive activity outside normal bounds.