touch on
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[edit]touch on (third-person singular simple present touches on, present participle touching on, simple past and past participle touched on)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To mention briefly; to cursorily discuss.
- We touched on the subject of wages, but we didn't reach a conclusion.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To come or go to for a short time.
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts.
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[edit]mention briefly
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