VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Shift Gears

Meaning:

Change the subject, or change what one is doing

Examples:

  • While U.S. special envoy, James Dobbin, was on his way to Qatar, the Karzai government decided to shift gears.
  • Let us leave behind discord and division among nations and shift gears to combine our efforts in order to face this common challenge.
  • Okay, let me shift gears and show you another target.
  • Around noon, Stocker and Danks shift gears.
  • I invented a plasma antenna, to shift gears.
  • This makes it really urgent that we shift gears.
  • You've got to step outside to shift gears.
  • To be able to shift gears in poker is a good skill.
  • Let's shift gears from what you did right, to what you did wrong.
  • We have to shift gears.