spare (someone) the details
Definition of spare (someone) the details
: to not tell someone all the unpleasant or boring details about something “I drank too much last night and got sick.” “Please, spare me the details.”
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: to forbear to destroy, punish, or harm
: to refrain from attacking or reprimanding with necessary or salutary severity
: to relieve of the necessity of doing or undergoing something
: not being used
: held for emergency use
: being over and above what is needed : superfluous
: a spare tire
: a duplicate (such as a key or a machine part) kept in reserve
: the knocking down of all 10 pins with the first 2 balls in a frame in bowling
: extended treatment of or attention to particular items
: a part of a whole: such as
: a small and subordinate part : particular
: to report minutely and distinctly : to report with close attention to small elements : specify
: to assign to a particular task
: to furnish with the smaller elements of design and finish
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