| 单词 | to skate over thin ice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto skate over (or on) thin ice c. figurative, esp in phr. (a) to skate over (or on) thin ice; (b) to skate over or round (a fact, subject, etc.), to pass by or over hurriedly, to avoid mentioning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > be in danger > be at risk or in a precarious position stacker1402 periclitate1581 to stand on a rolling stone1581 to lie upon the wager1590 tottera1616 concern1659 to tread on eggs, on delicate ground, on thin icea1734 tremblea1862 to skate over (or on) thin ice1897 to teeter on the brink1937 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over > in speaking, writing passa1425 missa1450 ferry1477 pretermit1542 silence1570 slip1607 reticence1833 to miss out1855 to skate over or round1928 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Wks. (1906) I. 179 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them. 1897 Church Times 17 Sept. 283 Cardinal Vaughan is an adept at skating over thin ice. In his address..there were many points which every one knows were weak, but he glided over them with surprising deftness. 1897 A. Beardsley Let. 15 Sept. (1970) 368 I hardly like to think now of all the thin ice I must have skated over since March 31st—a miraculous patinage! 1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston V. iii. 356 Even Punch regaled its readers with a princely figure of slightly sinister aspect skating perilously on the thin ice of foreign affairs. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 30 Mar. 243/1 The Premier did not do more than skate round the problem. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 98 He..could talk at length of..how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses. 1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway v. 123 We both skated over the implications of that. 1957 Economist 7 Dec. 860/1 The reason for the outbreak of the second Balkan war in 1913..is gracefully skated over. 1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 622/3 Mr Brown's latest paper on prices and incomes skates carefully around this point. 1971 Where Sept. 266/1 It also skates over the fact that it is an offence to be in possession of the drugs listed if they have not been legally prescribed. 1978 H. Carpenter Inklings iv. i. 216 He skated on thin ice in the opening chapter of The Problem of Pain, where he offered his readers a ‘proof’ of the existence of God which..tackled this immense issue ‘on the scale of a pamphlet in a church porch’. 1979 C. Moule in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth v. 135 It has been claimed that Mark's christology is authoritative and as much part of the New Testament as Paul's... But this is to skate over the question, What was Mark's intention? < as lemmas |
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