gist

"We don't want to lose you, but we think you ought to go," seemed to be the gist of it.

Europe will need to be assured the US "has its back" is the gist of the argument being made.

You didn’t even have to see the movie to glean the gist of its plot; the music started filling in the blanks.

“The general gist of saying everything is worse, is dangerous — it’s not true. But aesthetically, things have gotten worse,” he said.

The rest of us can watch — we may even understand the gist of their conversations — but their world is theirs alone.