change the subject

idiom

: to start a new topic of conversation

I didn't want to talk about work, so I changed the subject.

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As this would clearly seem to spell trouble for the incumbent party, Harris has largely tried to change the subject, such as by parading around with Liz Cheney in an effort to drum up support from highly-engaged, news-attentive Republican voters repelled by Trump. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 Ariana Grande Wants Nothing Wicked, Cast Has Other Ideas Yang tries to change the subject by asking Grande how her weekend was. —

Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024 Israel’s enemies, including those on college campuses, like to say that this didn’t start on October 7 — a transparent effort to change the subject and downplay the atrocities committed by Hamas on that day. —

The Editors, National Review, 7 Oct. 2024 By the ineluctable logic of Trumpism, of course the ex-President had to do something to change the subject. —

Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for change the subject

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