skating over
Superficially passing through
Skating over means passing quickly across a subject without examining it closely, gliding past difficulties or details that might slow you down: The report skates over the financial irregularities.
The image is of a skater gliding smoothly across ice rather than stopping to dig in.
Often implies deliberate avoidance of uncomfortable facts.
- glossShine or annotation
- smoothnessFreedom from irregularity
- superficialityAbsence of meaningful depth
- scratch the surfaceExamine only superficially
- glideMove with effortless continuity
thin ice · evade · omit · bypass · slipperiness · oversimplification · trivialize · minimize · hand wave · neglect · overlook · brevity · skim · cut corners · sidestep · frictionless · casualness · vagueness
- downplayingminimizing, downplay, trivializing, belittling, soft-pedal
- avoiding tacticsdodging, evading, sidestepping, skirting, deflecting
skating overdigging into
Examining something thoroughly
scrutinizing · investigating · probing · dissecting · poring over
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