skate over/around sth
UK also skate round sth— phrasal verb with skate uk/skeɪt/us/skeɪt/verb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
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 around the problem, it doesn't solve it.
I didn't understand what the teacher said about prepositions, because she only skated over it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Treating as unimportant
- blow
- blow sth/sb off
- brush sb/sth aside
- denigrate
- deprecate
- derogate
- derogate from sth
- laugh
- never
- play fast and loose with sth/sb idiom
- pour
- pour scorn on sb/sth idiom
- scorn
- scornful
- scruple
- talk
- talk sth down
- wave
- write
- write sb/sth off
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