单词 | skim off |
释义 | skim offphrasal verb See full dictionary entry for skimIf someone skims off the best part of something, or money which belongs to other people, they take it for themselves. He has been accused of skimming the cream off the economy. [VERB noun PARTICLE noun] Rich football clubs such cannot simply skim off all the big stars. [VERB PARTICLE noun] If I read this right, he skimmed off about thirty million. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] skim off in British Englishverb (tr, adverb) to take the best part of the teacher skimmed off the able pupils for his class |
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