go off at score

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go off at score (third-person singular simple present goes off at score, present participle going off at score, simple past went off at score, past participle gone off at score)

1. (idiomatic) Of a horse, to break suddenly into a gallop.
2. (idiomatic) Suddenly to say or do something impetuous.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Three and—an Extra’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 12)

     Bremmil went off at score after the baby's death and the general discomfort that followed, and Mrs Hauksbee annexed him.