The phrase "explain the premise" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used when someone is asking for a detailed explanation or description of the main idea or underlying concept of something. For example: - Can you please explain the premise of your argument in more detail? - The author's main point is unclear to me. Can you explain the premise of the article? - Before we begin the discussion, can you explain the premise of the book we'll be talking about?.
First, I should explain the premise of Snowpiercer.
8.06pm: Steve's main job is to explain the premise of the show.
She was using the objects in her 19th-century town house, which was bought and renovated by Professor Turkle after her divorce from Becca's father 10 years ago, to explain the premise of her new book.
"It has a relationship to the photographs but it is entirely it's own thing" says Grannan. "It's a little difficult to explain the premise of the film, but it deals with the nonlinear, disruptive nature of experience and memory".
When you answer "no," they will attempt to explain the premise to you, as if it were challenging and then proceed to instruct you to order twice as much food as you need.
When producer Katy Vanden got in touch to explain the premise of the play and ask for expertise, the idea immediately chimed with my previous experiences as a council solicitor advising the planning committee.
He explained the premise of the show: men and women competing for a job with Donald Trump.
She explained the premise to me, and I agreed: it was amazing.
Before starting into it, Mr. Bleckmann explained the premise: an internal monologue by someone adrift in a life vest, aware that sleep means drowning and dreaming means oblivion.
It opened with a deep-voiced announcer explaining the premise, which was not that different from telling the story of human history (or the Civil War) through objects.
Katie Leclerc and Vanessa Marano, the actors who play the teenagers who were switched at birth, giving the series its name, explained the premise at the beginning of the episode, both in English and in sign language.
