digressverb [ I ]
uk/daɪˈɡres/us/daɪˈɡres/to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else:
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
The lecturer temporarily digressed from her subject to deal with a related theory.
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- euphemism
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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digression
noun [ C or U ] uk/daɪˈɡreʃ.ən/us/daɪˈɡreʃ.ən/
Talking about money now would be a digression from the main purpose of this meeting.