off the subject

She either ignores me or brushes off the subject.

McCarthy, attempting to move off the subject, ended the gathering Tuesday by stressing that the conference should stop acting as if it had already won control of the chamber and instead focus on uniting ahead of Election Day, according to four people present who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

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.

Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by pretending not to understand; but generally he answered all I asked most frankly.

“You’re getting off the subject here,” Sanders chides, before relenting: “Look, she is the future of a segment of the Republican Party which is delusional, which tends toward violence.”