work round to

work round to
phrasal verb work around to or work round to [transitive]
Word forms "work around to":
present tense I/you/we/they work around to he/she/it works around to present participle working around to past tense worked around to past participle worked around to
British to gradually start to talk or write about a particular subject in a conversation or piece of writing, especially because it is embarrassing

She suspected that he had something important to say and could not work around to it.


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