talk around sth
— phrasal verb with talk uk/tɔːk/us/tɑːk/verb [ I ]
UK also talk round to avoid speaking directly about something:
He just kept talking around the subject and didn't tackle the main issues.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- evasive
- gloss over sth
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- meander
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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