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skate over
verb
- to cross on or as if on skates
- to avoid dealing with (a matter) fully
Idioms and Phrases
Treat superficially or hurriedly, avoid mentioning, as in He concentrated on the main points of the contract and skated over the details . This idiom transfers the gliding motion of skating to dealing with something in a cursory way. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
To think that I used to skate over the meadows where that mountain now stands!
And then when these critics have to skate over the "Poems and Ballads" episode—thin, cracking ice!
To skate over meadows and into inaccessible bogs gives one a taste for exploration.
Both of the boys looked the broken skate over, and then retired to the old boathouse to see if they could not fix it.
I still take my daily walk, or skate over Concord fields or meadows, and on the whole have more to do with nature than with man.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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