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touch (up)on something
Fig. to mention something; to talk about something briefly. In tomorrow's lecture I'd like to touch on the matter of taxation. The teacher only touched upon the subject. There wasn't time to do more than that.
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touch on something

Fig. to mention something; to talk about something briefly. In tomorrow's lecture I'd like to touch on the matter of taxation. The teacher only touched on the subject. There wasn't time to do more than that.
See also: touch

touch on something
1. to speak briefly about something During the interview, we only touched on how much I would be paid.
2. to be connected to Although his book is about an event of many years ago, it touches on similar events of today.
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You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it.
He longed to question her, to hear more about the life of which her careless words had given him so illuminating a glimpse; but he feared to touch on distressing memories, and before he could think of anything to say she had strayed back to her original subject.
Laying an affectionate and laughing touch on the boy's extended hand, as if it were at once his giddy head and his light heart, Mr.
 
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