broach the subject/question/matter etc• Now, popularmagazines regularly broach the subject.• He broached the matter carefully while Marshall put a match to some logs in the grate.• It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelorstatus.• But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice.• Popular magazines now broach the subject of mentalillness, while the government is encouragingresearch into mental health.• It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before.• When, two months later, Fathervan Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.• I never broached the subject with him again.
broach• You could see De Gaulle fervently hoped it wouldn't be broached again.• Recently, Milosevic broached one possibility.• But we have not yet broached the explanation of these changes.• I think Susan is being bullied at school, but every time I try to broach the matter with her she refuses to talk about it.• He decided not to broach the subject of divorce until his wife had recovered from her illness.• It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelorstatus.• But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice.• When, two months later, Fathervan Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.• Moreover Pound's anti-Semitism, later so notorious, certainly casts a sinister light on his readiness to broach these issues.
Originbroach
(1400-1500)broach“to make a hole in, stab”((14-17 centuries)), from broach“tool for making holes”((14-17 centuries)), from Frenchbroche; → BROOCH