skating around
Not addressing directly
Skating around means avoiding direct confrontation with something—a topic, question, or issue.
Rather than addressing it head-on, you glide past it: The senator kept skating around the question of campaign finance.
The image is of ice skating, moving smoothly but never stopping at any particular point.
Sometimes appears as skate around: He skated around the real problem.
- ice rinkFrozen surface for skating
- rinkEnclosed skating surface
- evadeEscape by cunning
- sidestepEvade by moving aside
- rollList of names
circumvent · glide · skirt · hedge · blades · tiptoe · choreography · dodge · maneuver · spin · carve · coast · freestyle · deflect · pivot · twirl · stonewall · slippery slope
skating aroundconfronting
Addressing directly
cutting to the chase · tackling · taking the bull by the horns · facing · dealing with
skating aroundprobing
Thoroughly investigating something
unpacking · dissecting · digging into · drilling down · getting to the bottom of
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