What does the idiom/phrase "but I digress" mean?
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 digress". But the dictionary says that digress , a verb, means "to stray off of something, to wander from a path, or to turn aside, etc.".
ELI5: How does the idiom "...but, I digress." work?
2017年6月28日 · A digression is a synonym for a tangent, or a deviation. It means that you've strayed away from the main thing that you're talking about.
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2021年6月18日 · "I digress" is a conjugation of "to digress" (even though it's spelled the same) that can mean that "I generally am one who digresses" as well as "I am currently digressing". It's a grammatical question to which the answer depends on context.
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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 main topic) was rather capricious. Unless I'm admitting I had been being a little self-indulgent. And I feel 'back to topic' has a flavour of 'I tend to be a little abstracted'.
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2024年2月7日 · Centuries ago people used to use the present simple even when talking of past events. Some idioms have retained the form in which they were used ages ago. Today we should say 'I am digressing' or one can argue for other tenses, but 'I digress' has taken on idiomatic qualities so it remained unchanged over the years.
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"I digress" isn't an expression that needs a response. Basically it means the speaker is aware that they'd talked about a different topic for a little too long, and are apologetic about it before they go back to the main discussion.
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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 discussion. The observation comes after the fact of having digressed already and of continuing (at least until the moment of making the observation) to digress.
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2022年1月30日 · The only thing that keeps me going is a great team. Neurosurgery is so small that we don’t have enough residents to do things like have an intern and senior overnight and still have enough hands to cover the day cases.
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2021年4月10日 · Correct, it’s just how we commonly say it. ‘But I’m digressing’ is technically correct, it just sounds weird, at least if you’re using it in place of ‘but I digress’. I doubt there’s any way to give you even a roughly accurate estimate as to how many similar expressions there are in English. Even if I could think of a list, I ...
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2022年12月17日 · I would say that outside of the fixed expression "but I digress," the word digress is slowly disappearing from modern English. It's not a common word and none of your examples seem natural to me. It's much more common to say "going on a tangent."