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Touch on   /tətʃ ɑn/   Listen
Touch on

verb
1.
Refer to or discuss briefly.
2.
Be relevant to.  Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have-to doe with, pertain, refer, relate, touch.  "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
3.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.  Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore.  "Repair my shoes please"
4.
Have an effect upon.  Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch.






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"Touch on" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his class, he was suffering from "the Rheumatiz." "Those are nice chrysanthemums in your garden," we observe. "Yes, they are, sir," he replies; "but if they had been better attended to when they was young, they'd have been nicer." "Well, I suppose both of us would," is the rejoinder. We are in touch on the instant. Our new acquaintance laughs, and so a question or two is put to him, and the following is the substance of his answers, rendered a la Jingle ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes

... Eleseus was not distressed in any way in the matter of Barbro; she could go to the devil—and, besides, he had two big bank-notes in his pocket! The brothers took care not to touch on any mournful things, such as the strange way father had said good-bye, or how mother had cried. They went a long way round to avoid being stopped at Breidablik, and made a jest of that little ruse. But when they came down in sight of the village, and it was time ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... Jansenism killed this her conscience. "The Pauline reactions describe the critical epochs of theology and the Church."[137] One might write a history of dogma as a history of the Pauline reactions in the Church, and in doing so would touch on all the turning points of the history. Marcion after the Apostolic Fathers; Irenaeus, Clement and Origen after the Apologists; Augustine after the Fathers of the Greek Church;[138] the great Reformers of the middle ages from Agobard to Wessel in the bosom ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... work disappeared as snow does before the heat of the sun, for her whole nature being of intense love, its heat melted all prejudices before it. All of you are familiar with the grand work in her own State. I need not touch on her work in other States, for you all know it so well. I am glad to state that California which has always been so proud of her material resources is now far prouder of the fact that on its soil was born 'The Coming Woman,' 'The Ideal ...
— A California Girl • Edward Eldridge

... the room, and Hester threw herself on her knees and covered her face with her trembling hands. Presently she was aroused by a light touch on her ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade


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