move off sth/on (to sth)
— phrasal verb with move uk/muːv/us/muːv/verb
C1 to change from one subject to another when talking or writing:
Let's move off this subject now, all right?
Can we move on to the next item for discussion, please?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- euphemism
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- obliquely
- parry
- roundabout
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
- underlying
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