Okay, so I know when to "but I digress"; I use it when I'm talking about something and then stray off topic and talk about something else, so in order to get back to the topic, I say "but I …

2015年12月18日 · In all of these instances, the phrase containing "but I digress" occurs in the context of an author who has caught himself going off on a tangent from the main point of the …

2015年5月16日 · When Sherlock Holmes digresses and then comes out of the digression it is usually because the observer may not be following or may confuse the observer to his main …

2019年12月4日 · I'd not use 'anyway', 'but I digress' or 'enough of that' in most contexts, as perhaps also hinting that the digression (which might have been at least as important as the …

2021年8月22日 · Digress or obfuscate, pivot or approach avoidance all imply deliberate intent, which is in no way clear in the example. (Pragmatic topic loss is not something I've heard of, …

2012年9月7日 · Regress could work, but if you digress, then it's closer to deviate in its use in this sense. So I don't think there is a single word for un-digress in this context.

2016年9月9日 · You can use the word digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. In your example, "I'm certain of it: the square root of 225 is 25," said Peter. But when …

2012年12月8日 · @user541686: Merriam-Webster seems to take the opposite view: that retrogress(ive) applies to a one-off situation where backward figurative movement—whether …

2020年7月28日 · You can add "I digress" after a rant, but I would not usually do it. If you do it, it would cause everyone to burst out laughing. The effect is one of a form of bathos - a figure of …

2021年1月22日 · Basically when someone jumps to a kind of related topic and talks about it very passionately for a while. What is the word for that? As in, "I hate to go on a -------- but I …