shift gears
Upper Intermediate (B2)informal
Switch to a different way of doing things.
"Halfway through the meeting, we shifted gears and focused on the budget instead."
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shift gears entirely.
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Let's shift gears.
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I want to shift gears,
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So let's shift gears.
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Then we got to shift gears.