touch lightly
Example Sentences
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“I’ve got my boys over there. I built some really good relationships, so try to keep in touch lightly with everybody.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2017
And both touch lightly on Mr. Hiaasen’s serious concern with toxic pollution.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2013
It manages to touch lightly on all aspects of life, from war and poverty to square meals and love.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, then, is the Conversation Hour: the time to touch lightly on the need for a new vacuum cleaner, his gaucheries at last night's bridge party, the prospects for remedying his cultural poverty .
From Time Magazine Archive
The late Judge Foster and Judge Pitman both concede—what indeed is too notorious to be denied—that there are frequent and gross miscarriages of justice; but they touch lightly on this aspect of the question.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 by Various
