Advertisement
Advertisement
tease out
verb
- tr, adverb to extract (information) with difficulty
Idioms and Phrases
Lure out, obtain or extract with effort, as in We had a hard time teasing the wedding date out of him . This term alludes to the literal sense of tease , āuntangle or release something with a pointed tool.ā [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
There were tens of thousands of listening sessions across the globe, meant to tease out the issues that Catholics most cared about.
Weāre left to tease out their differences.
āThatās what baseballās all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that thereās actually a lot happening.ā
"It is hard to tease out the precise reason for this, but our sense is that this has more to do with selective engagement," Milan Vaishnav, co-author of the study, said.
Thereās enough there for any decent horror filmmaker to tease out, especially a director with the eye for detail and mood that gave āLonglegsā its aura of hidden abnormality and a timeless evil lying in wait.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse