the.com/subject matter
The thing you're actually supposed to be talking about, allegedly.
means The topic or content that a piece of writing, conversation, or work is actually about.
from A straightforward compound from 'subject,' itself from Latin subjectus ('thrown under' or 'placed beneath'), via the idea of a topic 'lying beneath' discussion or treatment. 'Matter' here comes from Latin materia, meaning substance or material — the stuff something is made of. Joined together in legal and academic English, the phrase literally means the substance lying under consideration — what's underneath the talk, whether or not the talk ever gets around to it.
- legal use
- Defines whether a court even has jurisdiction.
- insurance term
- The property or person actually being insured.
- common dodge
- Stay on topic, said no tangent ever.