off the subject
Example Sentences
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If you reach out to your teen and they brush off the subject or don’t want to talk about it, Bond said, try again at another time but don’t force the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
Just as he went to turn the podcast off, the subject changed to the painter Bob Ross — by then, a well known A.S.M.R. trigger.
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2019
Candidates always wander off the subject in an effort to stay on message, and the moderators need to lasso them right back to where they should be.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2016
“When people met they held off the subject of house prices with a conscious sense of restraint,” Lanchester writes, “and gave in to the desire to talk about them with relief.”
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2012
Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by pretending not to understand; but generally he answered all I asked most frankly.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
