gloss over sth
— phrasal verb with gloss uk/ɡlɒs/us/ɡlɑːs/verb [ T ]
to avoid considering something, such as an embarrassing mistake, to make it seem not important, and to quickly continue talking about something else:
She glossed over the company's declining profits.
The documentary glossed over some important issues.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- evasive
- 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
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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