flush out vs flesh out
flesh out
Definitions
verb
- make fat or plump
- become round, plump, or shapely
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Examples
Normally in a documentary, writers and historians deliver overlapping soundbites that flesh out a central argument.
Where synth-pop traditionally makes a virtue of treble and plasticity, the Killers flesh out their songs with big rock dynamics and - on ‘All These Things That I've Done’ - a gospel choir.
The answer my book will flesh out in gory detail: signaling.
