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skate over in British Englishverb (intr, preposition)1. to cross on or as if on skates 2. to avoid dealing with (a matter) fully Examples of 'skate over' in a sentenceskate over Jane sounded as eager as Cheryl had done to skate over the topic.Here the strings skate over its postlapsarian lyric.Politicians do indeed skate over the issue for reasons of political correctness.So their letters avoid or skate over potentially contentious subjects.To make his case he did things like leave out contradictory data, shift points on graphs and skate over inconvenient facts.The official account and other accounts skate over this sensitive question by describing the success as a team effort.Taking the nature of the hybrids first, those advocating a permissive line skate over a crucial point.The second agenda item is 'matters arising from previous meeting', which he will probably skate over rapidly.The story doesn't dig deep, but remains content to skate over the surface, happy with formulas and stereotypes.He may have skated over this fact in the incident report. |