I want to ask you one question, and then we'll drop the subject.

"A great deal may happen in three days," I said, and dropped the subject.

It was clear she wasn't going to drop the subject.

The look on her face, however, had made him drop the subject.

We just dropped the subject of Billy and started it up!

Once she got him to drop the subject, she'd dropped it herself.

Had she looked at him that way the day before, he would have dropped the subject.

But the two men dropped the subject for the time being.

I don't see the point/ he had replied, and she dropped the subject.

I had no idea either, and wanted to drop the subject.