touch on

[touch on] or [touch upon] {v.}

To speak of or write of briefly.

* /The speaker touched on several other subjects in the course of his talk but mostly kept himself to the main topic./

Contrast: DWELL ON.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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