Idiom
drop the topic
Meaning
To stop talking about the topic at hand.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Please drop the topic before we start arguing.”
“I could see he was getting upset, so I decided to drop the topic and talk about something else.”
“Recognizing that the conversation had become unnecessarily contentious, the mediator urged both parties to drop the topic and focus on their shared objectives.”
Examples
simple
“Please drop the topic before we start arguing.”
contextual
“I could see he was getting upset, so I decided to drop the topic and talk about something else.”
complex
“Recognizing that the conversation had become unnecessarily contentious, the mediator urged both parties to drop the topic and focus on their shared objectives.”
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