touch on | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Tomentionbriefly; to cursorily discuss.Wetouched onthe 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, andtouched onthe several towns that lie on its coasts.

Examples:

EN: And if I seem to touch on matters that are how shall I say it, too intimate, you must forgive me it is because of my duty.
ES: Y si parece que hablo de asuntos cómo decirlo, demasiado íntimos, debe perdonarme es por mi deber.
EN: Don't use your surgical touch on me.
ES: No haga de médico conmigo.
EN: She put the golden touch on men, the golden give me pie.
ES: Se hacía de oro con los hombres. Sabía cómo convencerles.
EN: I'd fallen asleep... and suddenly I was awakened by a caressing touch on my forehead.
ES: Me quedé dormido. De repente me despertó una suave caricia en la frente.
EN: Wouldn't that be a touch on the nasty side?
ES: ¿No sería un golpe bajo?
EN: The slightest touch on this vine, and that mahogany log will come crashing down, and kill any living thing beneath it.
ES: Un ligero golpe aquí... y ese tronco caerá y matará al que se encuentre debajo.
EN: Put the finishing ´ touch on that sweet gal´s chassis,
ES: Le puso el toque más fino al chasis de esa dulce niña.
EN: As town clerk here, I am able to keep a close touch on the pulse of local opinion.
ES: Como secretario del ayuntamiento, puedo aportar una buena representación de la opinión pública.
EN: I don't want to touch on that, Barney!
ES: ¿Dónde va? Dos testigos valen más que uno.
EN: It touch on the panel reading.
ES: Muestra el panel.
EN: Why don't you put the touch on some of your relatives?
ES: ¿Por qué no acudimos a uno de tus parientes?
EN: Occasionally, in our series, we touch on a subject that is far too real to be made the butt of my usual flippant remarks.
ES: A veces tocamos temas demasiado serios... como para hacer bromas... en mis habituales comentarios del final.
EN: I'd like to touch on some things that we didn't even mention yesterday.
ES: Desearía tocar algunos puntos que ni si quiera mencionamos ayer.
EN: If you touch on that subject, I will leave immediately...
ES: Y si haces la más mínima alusión, me marcharé de inmediato.
EN: They may be distorted and yet touch on very sensitive points.
ES: Pueden ser distorsionadas y, aún así, tocar puntos muy delicados.

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