digress

Object

• bit: I need to digress a bit to let the ink dry.
• moment: I might digress a moment to note that reports of strange aerial phenomena are not peculiar to the post WW II period.
• touch: I need to digress here a touch, just to explain the difference between psychologists and psychiatrists.
• lot: Anyway, I seem to have digressed rather a lot from the original point of the post.

Preposition: at

point: Excuse me if I must digress at this point.

Preposition: into

discussion: Never did we digress into endless discussions about 'character ' .

Modifying Another Word

• briefly: I digress briefly into the concept of psychological structure.
• slightly: In order to explain I need to digress slightly.
• somewhat: To digress somewhat, there are a large number of rounds in Cornwall, usually located on spurs of land or prominently on hillslopes.
• again: Anyway I digress again - back to the story.
• not: Herr Grün adds: " We shall not digress; let us remain in France.
• now: In order to disillusion anyone who may think that my position was a sinecure, I shall now digress.

Used with why or when

when: Most Adventists were vegetarians, but I discovered that their kids would usually digress when out from under parental control.

Infinitive complement

• discuss: This is why I feel compelled to digress here to discuss the problem of our youth, particularly in the advanced industrialized nations.
• consider: So, I have to digress to consider those categories which have, from my point of view, important sociological significance.

Preposition: for

• moment: PT: I want to digress for a moment here.
• minute: To answer that, I have to digress for a minute.
• while: At this point it is probably worth digressing for a while to discuss why rehabilitation was linked with rheumatology in Britain.