Idiom
spare someone the details
Meaning
to not give details about something mentioned, usually to avoid embarrassment or irrelevance
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I know you had a bad day, so please spare me the details.”
“He told me he lost his job, but he decided to spare me the details about why it happened.”
“While the witness described the accident, the judge asked him to spare the jury the details of the most graphic injuries.”
Examples
simple
“I know you had a bad day, so please spare me the details.”
contextual
“He told me he lost his job, but he decided to spare me the details about why it happened.”
complex
“While the witness described the accident, the judge asked him to spare the jury the details of the most graphic injuries.”
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