skate over/round/around sth

— phrasal verb with skate

Definition

› to avoid dealing completely with something or to fail to pay enough attention to it: Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it. I didn't understand what the teacher said about prepositions, because she only skated over it.Treating as unimportantNeglecting and ignoringNot paying attention

(Definition of skate over/round/around sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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