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2022-02-15 08:02
Tone down phrase
When you tone down what you've written or said, you reduce its forcefulness, severity, or offensiveness.
My friend advised me to tone down my letter of complaint before sending it.
The teacher thought my argument was extreme, so I toned it down.
If you tone down a flavor or a color, you make it milder or less vivid.
The color of your shirt is perhaps too bright. You should tone it down a bit.
Vegetables can tone down the salty flavor of this dish.
To control one's own words to be polite or avoid causing upset or controversy
Not to do too much or too little in anything
To use something to harden a material.
The verb "tone" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase dates from the mid 1800s.
Do you see anything wrong?
To say the same thing repeatedly
Ok, I get it! You sound like a broken record, seriously!
