Go off vs. go wrong

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Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #136 "How to make exclamations", question 6

What a disaster! I don't believe anything else could go ......... now.

(a) off
(b) wrong
(c) incorrect
(d) false

Business Idiom in English, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #136 "How to make exclamations", answer 6

What a disaster! I don't believe anything else could go wrong now.

Correct answer: (b) wrong
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Can you explain the different between go off and go wrong

[Alan]

Hi,

Go off can often be used to mean explode as in: Several bombs were dropped on the city. One landed near a school but fortunately it didn't go off.

Go wrong has the meaning of not working properly as was intended as in: They thought everything was perfect for the concert but at the very beginning the lights went out because something had gone wrong with the electrical system.

Alan
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